Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical "Missionary to the Wounded" 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas

Review from previous edition Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing . . . how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred, [and] how he was able to support the freeing of slaves but balked at the consequences of such freedom, in particular as it extended to civil rights. But even as the crucial matter of race threads through the book, it is by no means the only issue or paradox that Price confronts. . . . Price manages to bring Washington vividly alive as he maps Whitman's personal and professional enactments in it.

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical "Missionary to the Wounded" 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas

Review from previous edition Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing . . . how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred, [and] how he was able to support the freeing of slaves but balked at the consequences of such freedom, in particular as it extended to civil rights. But even as the crucial matter of race threads through the book, it is by no means the only issue or paradox that Price confronts. . . . Price manages to bring Washington vividly alive as he maps Whitman's personal and professional enactments in it.

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

• 1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War 2: Whitman as a Paradoxical "Missionary to the Wounded" 3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings 4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive 5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas

Review from previous edition Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing . . . how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred, [and] how he was able to support the freeing of slaves but balked at the consequences of such freedom, in particular as it extended to civil rights. But even as the crucial matter of race threads through the book, it is by no means the only issue or paradox that Price confronts. . . . Price manages to bring Washington vividly alive as he maps Whitman's personal and professional enactments in it.