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The Idea Of Failure In Henry Adams, Charles Sanders Peirce, And Mark Twain, Robert M. Bunker
The Idea Of Failure In Henry Adams, Charles Sanders Peirce, And Mark Twain, Robert M. Bunker
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Mark Twain, Henry Adams, and Charles Sanders Peirce, three great Americans of the Gilded Age, described themselves as grotesque failures. These pages have been written in the hope to make clear what they meant by success: the communication of their failure.