Huck Finn's America

A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain’s writing of America’s favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn : “A boldly revisionist reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn …Twain’s masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles still all too familiar in the twenty-first century” ( Booklist , starred review). In the “groundbreaking” ( Dallas Morning News ) Huck Finn’s America , award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern re