Folger to the U. S.
The writer most revered by the U. S. is adopted. He never visited America although he undoubtedly heard a great deal about it and was one of the first to make use of one of its first exports, tobacco. When you get off the train at his home town you are immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other...
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