Ron Chernow

When, in fact, he said, you know, 99% of the time we are voicing ideas that we picked up from party leaders, from party organs that were kind of parroting things.

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He writes a letter at one point to his family. He says, I have to move, move, move, exclamation point. And there is something driving him. I mean, one of many contradictions of Mark Twain is he always described himself as lazy. But we know Tom and Huck in the Mississippi. He published two dozen books in his lifetime.

He writes a letter at one point to his family. He says, I have to move, move, move, exclamation point. And there is something driving him. I mean, one of many contradictions of Mark Twain is he always described himself as lazy. But we know Tom and Huck in the Mississippi. He published two dozen books in his lifetime.

He writes a letter at one point to his family. He says, I have to move, move, move, exclamation point. And there is something driving him. I mean, one of many contradictions of Mark Twain is he always described himself as lazy. But we know Tom and Huck in the Mississippi. He published two dozen books in his lifetime.

somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 magazine articles, filled up 50 notebooks, gave thousands of interviews, gave thousands of speeches. And I, of course, had to go through all of this. And he was very aware of his own nature. He said, my emotions veer from one extreme to another.

somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 magazine articles, filled up 50 notebooks, gave thousands of interviews, gave thousands of speeches. And I, of course, had to go through all of this. And he was very aware of his own nature. He said, my emotions veer from one extreme to another.

somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 magazine articles, filled up 50 notebooks, gave thousands of interviews, gave thousands of speeches. And I, of course, had to go through all of this. And he was very aware of his own nature. He said, my emotions veer from one extreme to another.

Yeah. And I mean, there was it was interesting because there were a lot of characteristics. He was, you know, he claimed that he was lazy, but then he would go through kind of this hyper focused period. He could be very scattered and disorganized, particularly before he met his wife, who really cleaned up his people.

Yeah. And I mean, there was it was interesting because there were a lot of characteristics. He was, you know, he claimed that he was lazy, but then he would go through kind of this hyper focused period. He could be very scattered and disorganized, particularly before he met his wife, who really cleaned up his people.

Yeah. And I mean, there was it was interesting because there were a lot of characteristics. He was, you know, he claimed that he was lazy, but then he would go through kind of this hyper focused period. He could be very scattered and disorganized, particularly before he met his wife, who really cleaned up his people.

You know, people would walk into his room and there would be, you know, scraps of writing everywhere. There'd be, you know, pipes and cigars everywhere. It would be a complete mess. I did describe this to a psychiatrist friend who immediately said, you know, about attention deficit disorder. I try not to use contemporary psychological language.

You know, people would walk into his room and there would be, you know, scraps of writing everywhere. There'd be, you know, pipes and cigars everywhere. It would be a complete mess. I did describe this to a psychiatrist friend who immediately said, you know, about attention deficit disorder. I try not to use contemporary psychological language.

You know, people would walk into his room and there would be, you know, scraps of writing everywhere. There'd be, you know, pipes and cigars everywhere. It would be a complete mess. I did describe this to a psychiatrist friend who immediately said, you know, about attention deficit disorder. I try not to use contemporary psychological language.

It seems inappropriate to project that, you know, back into the past. But there's something like that, you know, that's clearly going on. But I got very fascinated by the business investments. In fact, at one point in the book, I said it was sometimes hard to tell whether Mark Twain was a literary man with business sidelines or a businessman with literary sidelines.

It seems inappropriate to project that, you know, back into the past. But there's something like that, you know, that's clearly going on. But I got very fascinated by the business investments. In fact, at one point in the book, I said it was sometimes hard to tell whether Mark Twain was a literary man with business sidelines or a businessman with literary sidelines.

It seems inappropriate to project that, you know, back into the past. But there's something like that, you know, that's clearly going on. But I got very fascinated by the business investments. In fact, at one point in the book, I said it was sometimes hard to tell whether Mark Twain was a literary man with business sidelines or a businessman with literary sidelines.

He said, I have to speculate, such being my nature. He admits late in his life, after he's lost several fortunes, he said, I was always the easy prey of the cheap adventurer. And there was something very, very compulsive about the speculation because the tragedy of the story is, you know, here's a man who made a fortune in book royalties. He made a fortune in lecture fees.