Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman & America's First Bohemians
In the mid-19th century, Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan hosted a circle of radicals who changed American society and helped set poet Walt Whitman on the path to immortality. In "Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians," Justin Martin tells the story of this colorful group of artists-regulars at Pfaff's, who are "rightly considered American's original bohemians."
Speaker Biography: Justin Martin is the author of three previous biographies: "Greenspan: The Man Behind Money," "Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon" and "Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted." As one of the few journalists to gain access to Greenspan, Martin produced a best-selling biography of the secretive Federal Reserve chairman, which was selected as a notable book by The New York Times Book Review. Martin's Nader biography served as a primary source for "An Unreasonable Man," an Academy Award-nominated documentary. "Genius of Place," the first full-scale biography of Olmsted, received glowing reviews nationally. Martin's articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including Fortune, Newsweek and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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