Miki, I'm intrigued with your notion that MT's politics were different from Sam's, and how and why, etc. Personally I have veered away from those sorts of outright splits, over the years, but even old dogs can learn new tricks, I guess.

More to your point, Jim Leonard has a good chapter on this topic in the recent volume, MT in Context, ed. John Bird.

Also: I am reminded of a few of the old chestnuts as sources: Lou Budd, Mark Twain, Social Philosopher; Arthur Pettit, Mark Twain & the South; and Phillip Foner, Mark Twain, Social Critic.




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Subject: [External] What were Mark Twain's politics?

Hello all,

During a recent interview with Steve Courtney of the Mark Twain House
(thank you Steve; thank you MTH) as part of the "Trouble at Home" series, I
was asked this question:
"What were Grace King's politics?"

I struggled to answer with clarity in the moment, as I might about my own
if asked.

So I am asking you wise ones whose answers I always read with interest (and
often with amusement):
What were Mark Twain's politics?
Likewise, what were Sam Clemens's politics?

Thanks in advance,
Miki Pfeffer

--
Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
*A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: *
*Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns   *
(LSU Press, 2019)
*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
1884 New Orleans World's Fair   *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)