Though “The New Dynasty” was performed for the Hartford Monday Evening Club in 1886, it wasn’t published until 1957, four decades after Sandburg’s poem. - MS

> On Mar 25, 2019, at 8:22 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In 1886, Twain wrote an essay entitled "The New Dynasty."
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> Its theme, and much of its language, are quite similar to Carl Sandburg's poem "I Am the People, the Mob" of half a century later.
> It is plain to me that Sandburg read Twain's essay, and was inspired by its thought process and even some of its wording.
> Did he ever acknowledge the role that Twain's essay played in his writing that poem?
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> - B. Clay Shannon