7/6: Sunday Morning – CBS News Watch CBS News Hosted by Mo Rocca. In our cover story, Rocca examines the history of the Statue of Liberty and how it became a beacon for immigrants. Also: Ben Mankiewicz talks with Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb about the making of “Jaws”; Robert Costa interviews…
The Mississippi Valley is “as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it … nothing to hang a fret or worry upon.” It’s a beautiful sentiment, and yet it contrasts with the fretful and worried life of the man who wrote those words: Samuel Clemens, known to the world by his pen…
Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Mark Twain” (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, examines the life of one of America’s greatest and most beloved writers. Read an excerpt below, and…
