The Better Angel
Subtitle: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 29, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195147094
First sentence: An uncharacteristically quiet-some said sullen-crowd of thirty thousand New Yorkers clogged the streets around the ornate Astor House on the west side of Broadway on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 19, 1861.