The Whitmanian Vision

Listen to Peter Coviello, editor of Walt Whitman's "Memoranda During the War," on this edition of The Connection with Dick Gordon. Whitman was the poet-prophet of the American Republic in internal exile; the Whitmanian Republic that Cindy Sheehan represents. George W. Bush and his neo-fascist co-conspirators are the anti-Whitman. I pledge my allegiance to the Whitmanian Republic, and to the principles on which it stands...