In 1922, Van Wyck Brooks launched a ferocious (and arguably sexist) attack on Livy for "sanitizing" Mark Twain's prose. Brooks's book demands a more nuanced corrective of Livy's editorial contributions. Chernow, sadly, isn't quite up to the task in his new bio.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ordeal of Mark Twain, by Van Wyck Brooks.