You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 107 words from this article are provided below; about 408 words remain.
 		 
If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:
• login here if you have already registered for online access.
• Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.

If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:
• Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.

Instititutions can:
•  Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.
| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2 | The History Cooperative
93.2  
Journals link Search link Partners link Information link
September, 2006
Previous
Next
The Journal of American History

Table of Contents
List journal issues
Home
Get a printer-friendly version of this page
 


Book Review


Mark Twain: A Life. By Ron Powers. (New York: Free Press, 2005. xii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 07432-4899-6.)
Mark Twain has inspired biographers, literary critics, historians, and many millions of readers for more than a century. Interesting books about him abound, and a great editorial project at the University of California, Berkeley, has, since the end of World War II, provided beautiful and reliable texts of his writings. Those texts and the abundant scholarship on Twain lead one to conclude that Mark Twain in all his fascination will never exhaust the interest of his readers. Nor will anyone ever produce a fully satisfactory biography. . . .
There are about 408 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.