Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)

What Bill Clinton Learned from Mark Twain About Telling Stories [from Esquire]

July 27, 2016

"But, gradually, I found myself caught up in the flow of the thing, gliding in my mind around every bend in the river, riding a raft with someone who knows where all the snags and sunken rocks of public life are."

So, when he began Tuesday night clearly working without a net--"In the spring of 1971, I met a girl"--it was clear that we were in for a long ride down a winding road. (When he hit the 22-minute mark and we were only up to 1972 in the Hilliad, I thought seriously about sending out for bottled water and provisions.) But, gradually, I found myself caught up in the flow of the thing, gliding in my mind around every bend in the river, riding a raft with someone who knows where all the snags and sunken rocks of public life are.

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Reading

Charles P. Pierce, "What Bill Clinton Learned from Mark Twain About Telling Stories," from Esquire (July 27, 2016). <Link to esquire.com>

07/27/2016