This is all quite confusing; what the devil did Powers intend for the
book. Are you saying that Powers is being politically antagonistic while
writing popular biography of some kind, or is he trying to engage
political antagonists?  Is his book part and parcel to some political
cause?  And why would one want to engage an antagonistic culture using
Twain as a front?

Right on with Freshman composition.  But how would we explain
the genre of this biography to Freshman.  What genre is it, for heaven's
sake?


     And how many minor facts are irrelevant--a half dozen, a dozen, or
?

Jason G. Horn
Gordon College
Barnesville, GA 30204