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Mark Twain's life-time spans America's time of greatest economic expansion. And Twain was a dynamic, even giddy, participant in all the fantastic booms and busts of his time, introducing himself into one harebrained get-rich-quick plan after another. But definately not striking it abundant, the man who coined the word "Gilded Years" failed with comical regularity to join the rates of plutocrats who made this period in the us notorious because of its wealth and surplus. Instead, Twain's mining firm failed, despite stunning real silver. He finished up somehow owing money over his 30,000 acres of inherited land. And his intend to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the Amazon fizzled when no boats would sail to South America. Undaunted, Twain poured his money in to the latest newfangled inventions of his time, all of which failed miserably. In Crawford's entertaining revealing, the familiar image of Twain assumes a fresh and surprising dimensions. Twain's account of financial optimism and determination is a kind of cracked-mirror record of American business itself - in its grandest cockeyed manifestations, its most comical lows, and its driven refusal to ever give up.
