Twain: What is the status of religion in the town of Hadleyburg? from what was samuel langhorne clemens pseudonym Watch Video
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Description: Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) is well known as a humorist and satirist. But like many satirists, he had serious things in view. Writing in the latter part of the 19th century, as the so-called “robber barons”—the giants of the steel and oil industries, e.g., Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller—were growing their monopolies, and as the railroads and national wire services were literally forging one nation out of our many communities, the character of our emergent
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