The heart of the work lies in three interrelated stories--Ulysses S. Grant's struggle to complete his memoirs before his death, Samuel Clemens' struggle to complete "Huckleberry Finn," and the struggle of both men to understand and explain their era.
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The heart of the work lies in three interrelated stories--Ulysses S. Grant's struggle to complete his memoirs before his death, Samuel Clemens' struggle to complete "Huckleberry Finn," and the struggle of both men to understand and explain their era.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Format is approximately 5.875 inches by 8.5 inches. xxxviii, 294, [4] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Illustrations. Grant and Twain: A Chronology. A Note on Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Mark Perry (1950-8 August 2021) was an American author specializing in military, intelligence, and foreign affairs analysis. He authored nine books: Four Stars, Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA, A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Conceived in Liberty, Lift Up Thy Voice, Grant and Twain, Partners In Command, Talking To Terrorists and The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur. Perry's articles have been featured in a number of publications including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Newsday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio). Perry's books have met with critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. He has served as editor of Washington D.C. 's City Paper, and The VVA Veteran, the largest circulation newspaper for veterans. Perry was also Washington correspondent for The Palestine Report, and was a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next fifteen months, as the two men became close friends and intimate collaborators, Grant raced against the spread of cancer to compose a triumphant account of his life and times, while Twain struggled to complete and publish his greatest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this deeply moving and meticulously researched book, veteran writer Mark Perry reconstructs the heady months when Grant and Twain inspired and cajoled each other to create two quintessentially American masterpieces. In a bold and colorful narrative, Perry recounts the early careers of these two giants, traces their quest for fame and elusive fortunes, and then follows the series of events that brought them together as friends. The reason Grant let Twain talk him into writing his memoirs was simple: He was bankrupt and needed the money. Twain promised Grant princely returns in exchange for the right to edit and publish the book, and though the writer's own finances were tottering, he kept his word to the general and his family. Mortally ill and battling debts, magazine editors, and a constant crush of reporters, Grant fought bravely to get the story of his life and his Civil War victories down on paper. Twain, meanwhile, staked all his hopes, both financial and literary, on the tale of a ragged boy and a runaway slave that he had been unable to finish for decades. As Perry delves into the story of the men's deepening friendship and mutual influence, he arrives at the startling discovery of the true model for the character of Huckleberry Finn. With a cast of fascinating characters, including General William T. Sherman, William Dean Howells, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Abraham Lincoln, Perry's narrative takes in the whole sweep of a glittering, unscrupulous age. A story of friendship and history, inspiration and desperation, genius and ruin, Grant and Twain captures a pivotal moment in the lives of two towering Americans and the age they epitomized.
The destinies of Mark Twain and US Grant came together in a relationship that ended with a memoirs of Grant which supported his family after his death and the world famous Adventures of Huckleberry by Twain. From reading the memoirs of Grant and the synopsis of the life of Twain it occurred to me that both of them had fate as a contributor. Grant fell off a steamboat while walking towards a pier and Twain chose to take a later steamboat then his brother Henry who was killed when the steamboat he was riding blewup. Both men survived and became friends and added to the literary culture of the United States. Without the memoirs of Grant we would have never known how he helped win the Civil War. Without Twain Grant could not have published his memoirs. So they both had a destiny in common.
