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Article Title

The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature

Authors

Jack P. Maddex

Abstract

The Civil War Influence on an American Literary Icon

In his 1953 book The Civil War, the southern writer James Street counter-intuitively selected Mark Twain as “My Favorite Confederate." Few others have made strong connections between Twain and the Southern Confederacy. Now, in ....