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Crawford wins acclaim with Twain book

Crawford Alan Crawford has written and edited Impact, the newsletter for the Public Affairs Council, for 11 years on a contract basis, partly to leave himself free for other projects. Projects like a critically acclaimed book on Mark Twain (about which he will be speaking at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6). Crawford's latest book—"How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain," released in October—won praise in The Wall Street Journal (where it was reviewed by Roger Lowenstein) and The New Yorker. "I got very interested in Mark Twain's business career, which is kind of a cracked mirror image of business success and the… Read More