"Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking--hugely human, enormously attractive." --Newsweek A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet--his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility--an exuberant...
Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan offers a moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet, an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-19th-century America. Two 16-page photo inserts.