Walt Whitman's Civil War juniper springs A literary tour de force

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting novel about one of the most urgent crises of our time

Why won't they get out of the way

Lara Zibners has seen it all

a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government

Walt Whitman's Civil War juniper springs A literary tour de forceIn 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described "a new book . . . with its framework jotted down on the battlefield, in the shelter tent, by the wayside amid the rubble of passing artillery trains or the moving cavalry in the streets of Washington . . . a book full of the blood and vitality of the American people." Walter