Mark Twain's Civil War: The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Richard P. Hardy 0470767499

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Booklist “A surprisingly interesting look at two people so wrapped up in make-believe that they began taking it seriously

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The approach here is not the conventional one of 'nonstandard analysis'

Mark Twain's Civil War: The Private History of a Campaign That Failed Richard P. Hardy 0470767499From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twains controversial Civil War story The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his own words, why he didnt do anything) in the war; but the article was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a growing