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'Hamilton' author Chernow's new book takes on icon of American letters, Mark Twain

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' Hamilton ' author Ron Chernow's new book takes on icon of American letters, Mark Twain .

The 1,200 -page “ Mark Twain ” will be published next week .

Chernow became fascinated by Twain as a prototype of the modern celebrity.

He found much to identify with Twain , relating to him as a fellow widower.

Mark Twain fit the stereotype of the funny man who’s sad and depressed under the surface and is kind of releasing that through the humor.

"There's a tremendous amount of self-loathing in him. I think that he saw all these impulses within himself that he was really powerless to stop. And then he realized he hurt other people.”.

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