Joining us on booktv is Alan Crawford, here is his book how not to get rich the financial misadventures of mark twain. Mr. Crawford, what you want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it . I wrote it in part as a spoof of books about successful people. And how if you just do what they did then you too can be a Great Success in life because having read a lot of these books i find them all woefully useless. There is even one you mightve heard of called the art of the deal, terrible book. Keke barnum wrote a book called the art of money getting and he made a Great Fortune at this point but was like mark twain went broke. He wrote the art of money while he was broke and the sales of that book enabled him to rebuild his fortunes and go on to be pt barnum chapter 2. 0. Its fascinating that mark twain was so good at so many things. Bestselling author of this time. He made more money on the lecture circuit that he did even as an author, he thought he could do anything. So from ch