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Walt Whitman by Reynolds, David S., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Life -- Popular culture, city life, and politics -- Theater, oratory, and music -- The visual arts -- Science, philosophy, and religion -- Sex, gender, and comradeship -- The Civil War, Lincoln, and Reconstruction.…”
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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