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Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

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“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...