02516nam 2200577Ia 450 991080960800332120200520144314.01-58729-923-2(CKB)2560000000015094(EBL)843226(OCoLC)641944416(SSID)ssj0000399282(PQKBManifestationID)11279217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000399282(PQKBWorkID)10376350(PQKB)10494837(MiAaPQ)EBC843226(MdBmJHUP)muse3008(Au-PeEL)EBL843226(CaPaEBR)ebr10379949(EXLCZ)99256000000001509420090910d2010 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrDemocratic vistas the original edition in facsimile /by Walt Whitman ; edited by Ed Folsom1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20101 online resource (215 p.)The Iowa Whitman series,1556-5610Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-870-8 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Textual Note; The Vistas of Democratic Vistas: An Introduction by Ed Folsom; Democratic Vistas; Annotations; Selected Bibliography of Works about Democratic VistasWritten in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Diagnosing democracy's failures as well as laying out its vast possibilities, Whitman offers an unflinching assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts,Iowa Whitman series.Politics, PracticalUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government1869-1877Politics, Practical814/.3Whitman Walt1819-1892.159715Folsom Ed1947-567671MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809608003321Democratic vistas3961525UNINA