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Mark Twain: A Film By Ken Burns (2001)
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"I am not an American, I am the American."-Samuel Clemens
Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best known and best loved author.Considered in his time as the funniest man on earth, Twain was also an unflinching critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed and racism.He created some of the world's most memorable characters as well as its most quoted sayings.And, in his often misunderstood novel Huckleberry Finn, he brought forth a masterpiece that Ernest Hemingway called the true beginning of American literature.
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