Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet - Softcover

Peck, Garrett

 
9781626199736: Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1626199736 ISBN 13: 9781626199736
Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2015

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Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk, engaging in a dazzling literary circle and fostering his longest romantic relationship, with Peter Doyle. Author Garrett Peck details the definitive account of Walt Whitman's decade in the nation's capital.

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Garrett Peck is an author, historian and tour guide. This is his sixth book. A native Californian and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and George Washington University, he lives in Arlington, Virginia. www.garrettpeck.com

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Verlag
HISTORY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1626199736
ISBN 13 
9781626199736
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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