In senior year in my boys New England boarding school English classes we studied American literature. Or, in 21st Century grievance diction, we were brainwashed with the American Renaissance. That’s the term F.O. Matthiesson coined in 1941 for five elite authors (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman). By the 1950s, across this nation whole courses bore that title. Samuel Clemens didn’t make varsity. No matter: I had arrived at boarding school three years before equipped with Tom Sawyer’s apple core and was uncomfortably polite to Jim because someone told me not to use The N-word (as we did not euphemize it in those days), though at age 12 ‘negro’ did not roll comfortably off my to
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