Founding Fathers of the Invisible Whitmanian Republic

From top to bottom: Walt Whitman, Bard; Martin Van Buren, Jacksonian democrat; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wise man; Norman O. Brown, Psychologist; Seymour Melman, Economist; George S. McGovern, Jacksonian democrat; Thomas Jefferson, Enlightened aristocrat; Andrew Jackson, Flawed giant; Noam Chomsky, Linguist.