For anyone who doubts the relevance of Mark Twain's writings to recent events, here are some book descriptions created for the Mark Twain for President site (http://www.twain2004.com/): The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain's major work on U.S. involvement in the Middle East traces the activities of a group of American tourists as they travel through the Holy Land and Europe, visiting the important landmarks and looting antiquities. Includes Twain's discussion of the personal value of Middle East antiquities, poignantly expressed in his description of a visit to Adam's tomb, and a complete account of his diplomatic mission to Damascus. The War Prayer Written during America's first protracted war in Asia, Mark Twain's popular antiwar story was released in illustrated form to undercut Richard Nixon's presidential campaign during the war in Vietnam. It is gaining wide circulation again as the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq is becoming a primary issue of the 2004 presidential campaign. Following the Equator Since making his round-the-world tour through the British empire in 1895-1896, Mark Twain has been one of the world's leading experts on British imperialism. His insights into British colonial activities in Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Southern Africa place recent British involvement in the conquest of Iraq into its proper context. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain's analysis of the Americanization of England that set the stage for recent U.S.-U.K. cooperation in the invasion of Iraq. Includes his devastating description of American use of weapons of mass destruction to impose American ideas and institutions upon monarchical Britain. Jim Zwick