The United States of Lyncherdom

The United States of Lyncherdom

"The United States of Lyncherdom" was an essay by Mark Twain written in 1901, after the lynching of three men in Pierce City, Missouri, his home state. It blames lynching in the United States on the herd mentality that prevails among Americans. Twain decided that the country was not ready for the essay, and shelved it. A redacted version was finally published in 1923, when Twain's literary executor, Albert Bigelow Paine, slipped it into a posthumous collection, "Europe and Elsewhere".cite news
title=America's Original Superstar
first=Roy
last=Blount Jr.
authorlink=Roy Blount, Jr.
publisher=Time Magazine
date=2008-07-03]

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