Figure Heads

"Figure Heads." New-York Saturday Press. 27 Oct. 1860: 2.

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commentary

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A criticism of figure heads and the shallow hypocrisy of the title. The writer holds up genuine authors of brilliance as men who should be revered, not those who hold a position.

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Emerson, Ralph

Ward, Artemus

Whitman, Walt

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Whitman, Walt

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.

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