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Martha Sherwood <[log in to unmask]>
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Reading the Gilded Age without commentary or abridgement and with the idea
that the shade of Mark Twain put it in your hands because it is very timely
isn't a bad substitute. Here is a link to an essay I wrote starting with
ideas in The Gilded Age and using it as a basis for political commentary on
my own community of Eugene, Oregon. I read the book in its entirety, in a
19th century edition, in a Mark Twain seminar. It was not assigned for the
class, and secondary sources IMHO misrepresent it.
https://lifeasahuman.com/2019/current-affairs/money-and-economy/the-gilded-age-and-the-mylar-age/

Martha Sherwood

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:10 AM John R. Pascal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Indeed.
>
> If Mark Twain were to rewrite The Gilded Age for our time, there would be
> several Amazon trucks filled with barrels of fountain pen ink delivered to
> 351 Farmington Avenue . . .  each and every week.
>
> Also, a pack of experienced bloodhounds wouldn’t be able to find his lost
> temper at the state of our country and the world.
>
> John Pascal
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 14, 2020, at 1:19 PM, L Oggel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, my YES. Barbara is sooo right. Thanks.
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM Ladd, Barbara <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't know what Twain might say to this, but it would be great if only
> >> he were alive to rewrite The Gilded Age for OUR age.
> >>
> >> Barbara Ladd
> >> ________________________________
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> >> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 7:01 PM
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> >> Subject: [External] "The Day Democracy Died" Sung by The Founding
> Fathers
> >>
> >> Just wondering....
> >> do you think Sam would’ve promoted/endorsed/approved of... this???
> >>
> >> https://youtu.be/-Ue5F57dZMU
> >>
> >>
> >> John Greenman
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