Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

by Justin Martin

Book Overview

In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.

Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306822261
• ISBN13: 9780306822261
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"