Ron Chernow is the author of a number of highly acclaimed biographies such as about Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant. His latest biography is about Mark Twain.
In an interview with the lefty rag Vanity Fair, Chernow explained Twain’s relationship with the rich:
Twain became this quintessential American writer, and he lived in a society that worships money and success, but as a child saw his father without money and without status, just ground down by these failed ambitions. If you read his books, he’s constantly, constantly satirizing money-mad people who dream of hitting the jackpot.
Naturally, Vanity Fair staff writer Erin Vanderhoof somehow had to make this about Donald Trump, despite the fact that Trump wasn’t even born until 36 years after Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Clemens, died. Even the title of the interview which was published…
