Life and Work of Mark Twain

"Innocents Abroad", I-Going East (1x5)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 01, 2002

Henry Ward Beecher organized Twain's trip East as a pilgrimage to pay obeisance to the founding monuments of Western culture, but Twain turned the tables and allowed the American reader to look down on Europe. Was Twain psychologically preparing America for its role as a world power?