Mark Twain: Writing the American Story - Heroes of Liberty

When Mark Twain began to write, America was still young. It was, however, already a dazzling place. Mark Twain relished it all: the big cities, the rough frontier towns, the great Mississippi River, the majestic forest, and the hot empty deserts. But above all, he loved to write about the people of America. Because the young nation, he sensed, was like a great experiment where everything could begin anew.