Miki,
I've been wondering about similar matters and thinking that it would be wonderful if he were alive to comment on politics in 2020!

You could check out his speech on Tammany and Croker:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3188/3188-h/3188-h.htm#link2H_4_0030
Mark Twain's Speeches, by Mark Twain<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3188/3188-h/3188-h.htm#link2H_4_0030>
THE STORY OF A SPEECH An address delivered in 1877, and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary o f the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877.
www.gutenberg.org

Barbara


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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

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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)

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