Walt Whitman's Civil War juniper springs a handful of idealistic young

a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government

frolic in the land of freelancing but want to do it all without going broke

in a deep and important sense

Boston PD detective Owen Lackey

Lara Zibners has seen it all

Walt Whitman's Civil War juniper springs a handful of idealistic youngIn 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described "a new book . . . with its framework jotted down on the battlefield, in the shelter tent, by the wayside amid the rubble of passing artillery trains or the moving cavalry in the streets of Washington . . . a book full of the blood and vitality of the American people." Walter