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Profile: Ken Burns' documentary on PBS about the life of Mark Twain

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 20020114
Author:BOB EDWARDS

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Profile: Ken Burns' documentary on PBS about the life of Mark Twain

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.

Mark Twain is widely acknowledged as one of our nation's greatest authors. Many American students read Twain's books, including "Tom Sawyer," and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which was one of the first books to raise the issue of racial tension in America. Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he is the subject of a new TV documentary by Ken Burns. For ...

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