Politics and Poetry: Leaves of Grass and the Political Crisis of the 1850s
Reynolds, David. "Politics and Poetry: Leaves of Grass and the Political Crisis of the 1850s." The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman. Ed. Ezra Greenspan. New York: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1995.
Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.