Episode · The Book Review · 2025-05-16
Ron Chernow on The Book Review: books mentioned (May 2025)
Ron Chernow on His New Mark Twain Biography
Gilbert Cruz discussed Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Ron Chernow discussed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow is a sweeping biographical exploration of one of the most celebrated and revered American writers and public figures of the nineteenth century.
Discussed“His new book Mark Twain looks at one of the most famous American citizens of the 19th century, one of the most revered American writers of all time.”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel chronicling a journey down the Mississippi River and exploring deep moral questions through the relationship between Huck and the runaway slave Jim.
Discussed“As Ernest Hemingway famously said, modern American literature began with a little book called Tuck Finn.”
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The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad is an 1869 travel book by Mark Twain chronicling his 1867 excursion through Europe and the Holy Land.
Discussed“And so even when he sold the rights to his first book, The Innocence Abroad, he writes to his publisher in Hartford of how important the money is to him.”
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Discussed“On the other hand, he started actually started with his novel Putinhead Wilson that I think it was 35 chapters each 35 chap each of 35 chapters starts with Putin had Wilson's calendar...”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“It's possible that you know Ron Chernow as the author of the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton, the source material for the smash Broadway musical.”
“He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several other major biographies including Washington a life, Grant about the president and civil war general Ulissiz Srant and Titan the life of John D. Rockefeller senior.”
“He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several other major biographies including Washington a life, Grant about the president and civil war general Ulissiz Srant and Titan the life of John D. Rockefeller senior.”
“He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several other major biographies including Washington a life, Grant about the president and civil war general Ulissiz Srant and Titan the life of John D. Rockefeller senior.”
“That was my conversation with Ron Chernow about his new biography Mark Twain one of the big non-fiction books of the season.”