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Silas Timberman book jacket

SILAS TIMBERMAN, by Howard Fast,
a 1954 novel wherein Twain's works are accused of being Communist propaganda.
I am indebted to Dan Smith of Roanoke, VA for bringing this novel to my attention.

Communism is idiocy. They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it -- it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. In a precious little while the money would be back in the former owner's hands and the communist would be poor again. The division would have to be remade every three years or it would do the communist no good.
- Mark Twain, a Biography


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