Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on July 28, 2022In the above epigraph, Hal Holbrook alludes to the events which inspired Charles Neider’s Mark Twain & The Russians (1960). The “propaganda line” appeared first in “Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes,” ostensibly...
The Twain Doctrine: Citizen Holbrook & The Geopolitics of Colloquial Humor
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