Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor by Jerome Loving

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor

Jerome Loving

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In 1865 Walt Whitman was dismissed from his clerkship in the Department of the Interior because Secretary James Harlan judged Leaves of Grass indecent, unfit to be read aloud "by the evening lamp." Most eloquent among Whitman's defenders was Willi...

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