Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims: And Other Speeches
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Twain, Mark / Neider, Charles, PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Throughout America's Gilded Age, humorist and novelist Samuel Clemens, a. k. a. Mark Twain (), was in great demand as a public speaker. This anthology, spanning the years from to , collects 82 examples of Twain's best "spoken" work. Topics include American mythmaking, the Hawaiian Islands, masturbation, the art of war, New York morals, and stage fright.