Mark Twain's War Prayer [Hardcover]

Written in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged just by his own country on others, declined to publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular illustrator Daniel Beard even urged Twain to issue the piece, to which the author replied, No, I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead. Mark Twains lambasting of phony, war-mongering patriotism reinterpreted by one of our finest contemporary illustrators. Like Twains best work, it is clever and true, and like the best polemics, it is pointed and to-the-point. Never has Chwast's political energy been on display so clearly and with so much concentrated energy.? Legendary 92-year-old graphic and font designer Seymour Chwast takes a dazzling, multidisciplinary approach to Mark Twains 104-year-old prose poem in this radical new book. Through drawing, pastel painting, type design, and computer color, Chwast breathes life into Twains savage rebuke of religions role in jingoism and violent patriotism. As massive numbers of people are killed, maimed and displaced in too many strife-torn regions of this already fragile planet,?