Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America by Susan Gillman

Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America

Susan Gillman

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Many persons have such a horror of being taken in, wrote P. T. Barnum, that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves. Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, ...

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