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What would Mark Twain think of Donald Trump?

  • Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
imageTwain was an opinionated, prolific commentator on the personalities and political issues of his day.Terry Ballard/flickr, CC BY

Thanks to the criticisms they’ve leveled in articles, interviews, tweets and letters to the editor, we know that many contemporary authors, from Philip Roth to J.K. Rowling, have a dim view of Donald J. Trump.

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