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In Search of Walt Whitman
Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
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Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)
Whitman moves to Washington to care for Civil War soldiers but grows disillusioned.
Whitman moves to Washington to care for Civil War soldiers but grows disillusioned.
Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood to write Leaves of Grass in 1855.
Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood to write Leaves of Grass in 1855.