{"id":2488,"date":"2010-07-10T07:26:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/07\/twain-unexpurgated\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:27:58","slug":"twain-unexpurgated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/twain-unexpurgated\/","title":{"rendered":"Twain Unexpurgated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/10\/books\/10twain.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12px; font-size: 10px; color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/larry_rohter\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none\" class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More Articles by Larry Rohter\">LARRY ROHTER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/10\/books\/10twain.html\" title=\"image from Associated Press\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/07\/10\/arts\/TWAIN\/TWAIN-articleInline.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"232\" width=\"190\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous \u2014 that\u2019s the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/samuel_langhorne_clemens\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Samuel Langhorne Clemens.\">Mark Twain<\/a>\u00a0we think we know, thanks to reading \u201cHuck Finn\u201d and \u201cTom Sawyer\u201d in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet.<\/p>\n<p>Whether anguishing over American military interventions abroad or delivering jabs at Wall Street tycoons, this Twain is strikingly contemporary. Though the autobiography also contains its share of homespun tales, some of its observations about American life are so acerbic \u2014 at one point Twain refers to American soldiers as \u201cuniformed assassins\u201d \u2014 that his heirs and editors, as well as the writer himself, feared they would damage his reputation if not withheld.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out,\u201d Twain instructed them in 1906. \u201cThere may be a market for that kind of wares a century from now. There is no hurry. Wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/10\/books\/10twain.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant By\u00a0LARRY ROHTER Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous \u2014 that\u2019s the\u00a0Mark Twain\u00a0we think we know, thanks to reading \u201cHuck Finn\u201d and \u201cTom Sawyer\u201d in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}