Remember Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"?

It was and still is very controversial.. banned in some school districts.
Too much of a threat to the status quo...
AND it's prescient.....

It exposes the election...

"On one side, a childhood bully with more money “than a body could tell what to do with,” the product of religious fundamentalists, and an individualist resentful toward bureaucracy and fearful of government. On the other, the improbable hero of his own story, the son of an absentee father, a born storyteller with a once-troubled youth. To see this rivalry played out, you could go to any number of news sources. Or you could go to one book. Because I’m not talking about Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. I’m talking about a single character, a 13-year-old boy invented almost 130 years ago by Mark Twain.

Published in 1885 during Reconstruction, but set before the Civil War, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” might be the most nuanced and intelligent account of the dual instincts of the American mind our literature has to offer. In the voice of one unforgettable narrator — a confused but insightful, unlawful but moral adolescent — Twain’s novel shows us more about our complex and contradictory ideals about government, race, economics and politics than just about any blog or radio show you’re likely to encounter."

This is brilliant!


http://www.salon.com/2012/07/06/mark_twain_invented_mitt/