The Thin Mountain Air Hales and regarded by Twain himself

and regarded by Twain himself as the best and most significant of his many books

was a constitutive element of religious practice

and the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics taken instead as folly

a kind of tool through which his action should express itself

Stephen Schmalhofer is a graduate of Yale College and a partner at a venture investment firm based in Greenwich

The Thin Mountain Air Hales and regarded by Twain himselfBy Paul Horgan New York State in the 1920s: a time of brisk and bright hope, with prosperity and progress rising as a vision beyond the fact of mortality to which all men are subject. For Richard, now in his sophomore year of college, life is a fruit ripe for the picking. But when his father, the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, is taken ill with tuberculosis, Richard leaves college to join his family in New Mexico. There his own health