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Few books in U.S. history have been as influential--or as controversial--as "Huckleberry Finn," which traces the rafting voyage of a white boy and the black, runaway slave he befriends. Few novels have been as widely debated or as frequently banned. The book got some new, and this time welcome, attention this week, thanks to a PBS series by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns that looked at the life of Mark Twain. "Huckleberry Finn" not only has survived the efforts to bury it, it has thrived and it has grown as a teaching tool. Innovative high school teachers now use it to talk to students about the imperfect America that forged Twain. They draw the connections between that America and the nation's lingering problems of racism.
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