Mark Twain’s Radical Pacifism

By Nathan Schneider

Monday, July 12, 2010 at 01:50 PM

Mark Twain's antiwar leanings are already common knowledge (or should be), perhaps best of all through his haunting short story "The War Prayer." But now, as his complete autobiography is being published for the first time by University of California Press, the true radicalism of his position is becoming more evident than ever.