Abstract
Mark Twain was fascinated by the phenomenon of celebrity. He experienced it firsthand and in spades, and he paid close attention to its mechanisms. Twain marveled at the wonders that could be worked by the machinery of publicity.
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Cherches, P. (2017). Rituals of Celebrity. In: Star Course. Transdisciplinary Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-203-9_5
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