Confederate Bushwhacker Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War / Jerome Loving.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Soldiers.

Veterans--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Veterans.

Humorists, American--19th century--Biography.

Humorists, American.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Private history of a campaign that failed.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

University Press of New England, Lebanon NH : 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but also the triumphantly successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Twain finally tells the story of his past as a deserter from the losing side, while simultaneously befriending and publishing the general from the winning side. Coincidentally, the year als

Contents:

On the eve of Huckleberry Finn

Skirting the Mason-Dixon

The greatest general who ever lived

March of the white man

"The private history of a campaign that failed"

The "private" history and the "personal" memoir

The killing of strangers

Connecticut yankee.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-472-2

OCLC:

857277380