The Greatest Banquet in American History
At the Palmer House, Chicago, with Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, and Bertha Palmer, 1879
Samuel Clemens was born November 30th, 1835 — Happy Birthday, Mark Twain!
As my friend Amy Razeghi of
reminded me, he arrived with a comet and exited with one.It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet.
The Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now there are the…