i've read mark twain when i was the teenager and "huckleberry finn" and tom sawyer never takes arthur or innocents abroad but his essays i knew he was involved in many different things. it is an excellent book. i deeply appreciate it. >> for b i'll always wanted to write about san francisco fascinated with california history. many of us have the vague sense that twain spent time here but not how much. it turns out that as we learned more about how much time he spent here that was a story i wanted to write. talk about "huckleberry finn" or tom sawyer but that twain is better known to us where as this one to be was a stranger that the emotions were so much closer to the surface to see him in this embryonic phase where the emotions are a of a bit more extreme the aspects of this style come together. the california context was up plus. any of their questions? >> i appreciate you being here. i have a question about stoddard. given that sam francisco bashing of gay-rights and literature and culture what is the reception over the past century of stoddard was he claimed as the precursor to th

i read mark twain when i was a teenager and i read tom sawyer and huckleberry finn. i never read king arthur or the innocents abroad but i read essays and i knew mark twain was involved in many different things like the imperialist league. so i was curious where -- it's an excellent book. i deeply appreciate -- >> i always wanted to write about san francisco to you i was fascinated in california history and i have a sense we had a vague sense that he spent time here but we aren't really sure how much time. and it turns out as i learn more about how much time he spent at how formative those years had been i realized that is the story that i wanted to write and you mentioned the anti-imperialist league i think it is better known to us that we think of in our minds i wear to me this was a stranger in a kind of fascinated me that these emotions were closer to the surface and to see him in this kind of embryonic phase where his emotions are a bit more extreme and the fundamental aspectend of the fundamentalaspe starting to come together. to me that was fascinating and i t

ballots for having been the inspiration for the voice of some of his characters, for instance huckleberry finn. so he has this marvelous, you know, relationships with henry adams and as part of the circle of washington and literary insiders. so he has a tremendous life outside of lincoln mendes covered beautifully. so i really do admire his book. so yes? >> you said that they had determined that this would be fact based, not just anecdotal. still what extent is there writing used at that time and still used today for research? six. >> extensively. he was a beautiful rider, but mostly a kind of short story writer and essayist. i would not say that their prose style was particularly gripping. in large sections they basically just "letters. if you look at the ten volumes, i would estimate offhand that three or four volumes is just direct quotation. they had notes on the side of the book the sort of side of the stores instead of foot notes. there was listed. that was basically until 1947 how most people were able to access. they had to do it through them. in the 1890's it published a collective wo

ballots for having been the inspiration for the voice of some of his characters, for instance huckleberry finn. so he has this marvelous, you know, relationships with henry adams and as part of the circle of washington and literary insiders. so he has a tremendous life outside of lincoln mendes covered beautifully. so i really do admire his book. so yes? >> you said that they had determined that this would be fact based, not just anecdotal. still what extent is there writing used at that time and still used today for research? six. >> extensively. he was a beautiful rider, but mostly a kind of short story writer and essayist. i would not say that their prose style was particularly gripping. in large sections they basically just "letters. if you look at the ten volumes, i would estimate offhand that three or four volumes is just direct quotation. they had notes on the side of the book the sort of side of the stores instead of foot notes. there was listed. that was basically until 1947 how most people were able to access. they had to do it through them. in the 1890's it published a collective wo