Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness
Author: Mark Dawidziak
Extensive national touring with a 40-minute presentation based on the book; the author is a regular performer as Mark Twain, second only to Hal Holbrook Extensive author outreach in centers of Twain history, where the author is known: Hannibal, MO, Hartford, CT, and Elmira, NY Expected attendance at the three major book fairs in Ohio Publicity and promotion tied to the author tours and events above National print, TV and radio tour Published to coincide with the summer tourism season to Twain history sites Published to coincide with Father's Day (excellent male gift) Twitter campaign using the shorter quotes Promotion on the author's website Author is a longtime journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and has extensive media connections, which he plans to exploit
A satirical self-help gift book showcasing Mark Twain's wittiest quotes about the life well lived.
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Extensive national touring with a 40-minute presentation based on the book; the author is a regular performer as Mark Twain, second only to Hal Holbrook Extensive author outreach in centers of Twain history, where the author is known: Hannibal, MO, Hartford, CT, and Elmira, NY Expected attendance at the three major book fairs in Ohio Publicity and promotion tied to the author tours and events above National print, TV and radio tour Published to coincide with the summer tourism season to Twain history sites Published to coincide with Father's Day (excellent male gift) Twitter campaign using the shorter quotes Promotion on the author's website Author is a longtime journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and has extensive media connections, which he plans to exploit
A satirical self-help gift book showcasing Mark Twain's wittiest quotes about the life well lived.
Description
This collection of Mark Twain quotes presents the best of the curmudgeonly writer's thoughts on diet, exercise, medicine, smoking, drinking, romance, parenting, old age, fashion, finances, politics, and stress management. Curated by a well-known Twain expert and mining lesser-known texts, speeches, and notebooks, it's the perfect gift for anyone who's had enough of Gwyneth's self-righteous advice and the ramblings of the blogosphere.
"Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."-from an April 15, 1882 speech
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."-from Pudd'nhead Wilson
"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."-from "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper"
Critic Reviews
"Nobody gets Mark Twain the way Mark Dawidziak does. Here is the master in all of his certainty, humor, and undertow. This book wonderfully underscores how contemporary Mark Twain is and always will be."
Ken Burns, award-winning documentary filmmaker
"Mark has got mighty dedicated to the restoration of Twain into our thinking and has pursued a trail of scholarship which led him to deeply research the man we so admire. We became friends early on when he covered theatre and television for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and have a mutual reverence and love for Mark Twain’s teeming, explosive mind. This is a collection of these explosions. I think you will enjoy them. I have enjoyed them for 60 years."
Hal Holbrook, actor
"Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.”
David Bianculli, television critic and guest host for NPR’s Fresh Air
"With this wink to his readers, Dawidziak sets up a humorous collection of Mark Twain's advice, quotes, and maxims on various topics that provide the basis for twenty short chapters...This current book, with its eye-catching cover featuring an embossed cameo of Mark Twain by Albert Levering from 1905, will likely be another popular volume for both the collector and gift-giver. "
Twain Forum- Briefly Noted
"Nobody gets Mark Twain the way Mark Dawidziak does. Here is the master in all of his certainty, humor, and undertow. This book wonderfully underscores how contemporary Mark Twain is and always will be."
— Ken Burns, award-winning documentary filmmaker
"Mark has got mighty dedicated to the restoration of Twain into our thinking and has pursued a trail of scholarship which led him to deeply research the man we so admire. We became friends early on when he covered theatre and television for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and have a mutual reverence and love for Mark Twain’s teeming, explosive mind. This is a collection of these explosions. I think you will enjoy them. I have enjoyed them for 60 years."
— Hal Holbrook, actor
"Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.”
— David Bianculli, television critic and guest host for NPR’s Fresh Air
"With this wink to his readers, Dawidziak sets up a humorous collection of Mark Twain's advice, quotes, and maxims on various topics that provide the basis for twenty short chapters...This current book, with its eye-catching cover featuring an embossed cameo of Mark Twain by Albert Levering from 1905, will likely be another popular volume for both the collector and gift-giver. "
— Twain Forum- Briefly Noted
About the Author
The television critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1999, Mark Dawidziak is the author of many books, including the 1994 horror novel Grave Secrets and two histories of landmark TV series: The Columbo Phile: A Casebook (1989) and The Night Stalker Companion (1997). A recognized Mark Twain scholar, his acclaimed books on the author include Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing (1996) and Horton Foote's The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain (2003). He is also a playwright, director and actor in northeast Ohio, where he lives with his wife and daughter, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at Kent State University.
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