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Mark Twain, ‘the Most Quotable Man in American History,’ Recognized the Democracy of Dignity, in Ron Chernow’s Telling

His enduring achievement is the invention of the-vernacular-as-literature, the plainspoken language of ordinary people.

Mark Twain, the subject of a new biography by Ron Chernow.
Mark Twain, the subject of a new biography by Ron Chernow. Via Wikimedia Commons