The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War

Abstract

in the pages of the Times and Whitman’s evolving antislavery rhetoric, or the ways Whitman’s interest in masculine physiology, pugilism, and the health of the republic in the Atlas presaged the themes of “Calamus.” Nevertheless, Grant’s book offers a deep and thought-provoking analysis of the debt that Walt Whitman’s transcendent vision owed to the partisan rhetoric of his era. It will prove valuable to Whitman scholars and beyond.