Article: Working through Whitman's contradictions.(Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855)(Book review)

Jason Stacy. Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 168 pages. Hardcover $44.95.

In Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855, Jason Stacy turns the lens of historical studies upon Walt Whitman's often disregarded early journalism. Stacy's approach to Whitman Studies owes a large debt to David Reynolds's cultural biography, Walt Whitman's America. However, Stacy's book takes up some of the inconsistencies in Whitman's life and writings that Reynolds leaves unexplained as intriguing ...

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