The book is an exciting revision of Twain as a thinker about religion, if not a religious thinker. This book is a solid guide to Twain's lifelong struggle with religious ideas.
Gary Scott Smith taught at Grove City College from 1978 to 2017 where he chaired the History Department and coordinated the Humanities Core. He received Grove City's inaugural Professor of the Year award in 2000, and the next year he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is the author or editor of seventeen books.