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Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
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Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians Hardcover - 2014

by Justin Martin


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In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. This vibrant tale, packed with original research, offers the pleasures of a great group biography like The Banquet Years or The Metaphysical Club. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture-imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon-seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day.

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  • Title Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
  • Author Justin Martin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, N Y
  • Date 2014-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306822261 / 0306822261
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (22.86 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Intellectual life - 19th, Menken, Adah Isaacs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014008822
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2014, Page 26
  • Choice, 02/01/2015, Page 973
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2014, Page 106
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/30/2014, Page 0

About the author

Justin Martin is the author of several books, with his two most recent titles covering Civil War-era subjects. Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians, selected as the outstanding biography of 2014 by the Victoria Society, New York, and as a finalist for the Marfield Prize, was also picked as one of the best books of that year by both the Kansas City Star and Choice magazine. Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted was also met with many plaudits and glowing reviews nationally. Martin lives with his wife and twin sons in Forest Hills Gardens, New York.
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