The Elephant on the Raft
Remembering Dad on a Mark Twain Odyssey
By Thomas Curley
Readers are saying…
“Wow! Tom Curley does not disappoint!”
“An exhilarating read!
…will leave you both laughing aloud and tearing up at times… Do yourself a favor and indulge in this brain food. You’ll be glad you did.”
“A Wonderful Journey…
particularly relevant in present-day America.”
“A true example of tolerance in a time of turmoil…”
Part memoir, part journal, part biography, THE ELEPHANT ON THE RAFT is author Thomas Curley’s intriguing road trip journal through the life of Mark Twain and related history in an effort to better understand his own father, who passed away decades prior. Curley escorts us through his revelations about Mark Twain’s family life while exploring his legacy in American pop culture and film since 1915. Along the way, Curley experiences countless epiphanies that underscore the very soul of America.
Meticulously researched with over 260 photos and illustrations sourced from the Library of Congress, The Mark Twain Project and more. It’s a journey reaching back to the Abolitionist movement in 1688 to the unrealized National Mark Twain Memorial, and More!
Available in 460 page, 6″ x 9″ paperback and Kindle eBook.
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“The newspapers heralded [Twain’s] return as a prophet, or something larger than a prophet; the soul of the nation personified…”
Ron Powers, Twain Biographer
” I regard Mark Twain as the foremost recorder and revealer of the American spirit of his time…To my mind he was beyond question the largest man of his time…”
Rudyard Kipling, November 19th, 1935
“No American youth has knowingly escaped the lessons, the philosophy and the spirit which beloved Mark Twain wove out of the true life of which he was a part…”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“The unspeakable Twain helped us address was slavery and its legacy – a combustible and unavoidable topic even today…How did Twain come to understand the unspeakable betrayals at the heart of American history?”
Twain scholar Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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