Clemens also was adamant that Shakespeare wasn’t author of the plays — and of course, Clemens had socialist leanings. Figures, he wore a white suit, made a fortune on one of his early works, then pissed it away and tried to write something that would refill his coffers.
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ There was nothing before. And there has been nothing as good since.” — Ernest Hemingway (another with socialist leanings)
> Ernest Hemingway (another with socialist leanings)
That’s a tad unfair.
Hemingway fought Franco and his Nazi allies during the Spanish Civil War because it was the right thing to do. He was therefore many years ahead of the rest of America in figuring out the threat presented by unbridled Fascism.
The American Volunteer Group got the same idea next, under Gen Claire Chennault, fighting the Japanese as “The Flying Tigers” in the airspace over China.
It took Pearl Harbor for the rest of America to get onto the same page — long after most the rest of the world were well-and-truly engaged.
Hemingway was many things, but it is just wrong to dismiss him as “another with Socialist Leanings”. McCarthy was all about that!