Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the Civil War, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of the Whitman family--from rural Long Island to working-class Brooklyn--enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.
- ISBN10 0802717616
- ISBN13 9780802717610
- Publish Date 3 November 2009 (first published 28 October 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Walker Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English