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Song of Ourselves

Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

Mark Edmundson

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ISBN 9780674237162

Publication Date: 04/13/2021

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240 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Mark Edmundson is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow, he is author of more than a dozen books, including Self and Soul, Why Teach? and Nightmare on Main Street.

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At the Wall Street Journal, read Mark Edmundson on how Ralph Waldo Emerson responded to pain and loss: not by withdrawing into “self-care,” but by getting back to work
At Literary Hub, read an excerpt from Song of Ourselves on how the American Civil War gave Walt Whitman a call to action
At the Wall Street Journal, read Professor Edmundson on how Whitman strove to resolve the tensions between Americans that threatened to scuttle their nation’s democratic traditions

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