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    Robert Roper - Now The Drum Of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War

    Robert Roper - Now The Drum Of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War

    Kepler's Bookstore

    January 13, 2009

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    The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper’s brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who led his men in twenty-one major battles—from Antietam to Fredericksburg, Vicksburg to the Wilderness—almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the conflict, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      January 13, 2009

      Times:
      7:30pm

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      Kepler's Books

      1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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