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...work, so Kaplan's biography seems marked by rearrangement. The author devised a scheme highly appropriate to the life of his subject. The book opens in the spring of 1884 with a tired and white-bearded Whitman, who has just purchased a house in unlovely (Kaplan's word) Camden, N.J. This is the Whitman who splashes in the bathtub, sleeps late, and depends on a cane to move around. In the second chapter, Kaplan describes Whitman's last days. The rest of the biography takes Whitman's life in chronological order from his birth in chapter three, so our last...
...Youth and young manhood fed the first edition in 1855. The poem cycle became an organic reflection of its author as he journeyed through the. South, the Great Lakes, the Hudson Valley, to Washington, where he cared for the Civil War's wounded and dying, and finally to Camden, N.J., where he erected a roughhewn burial vault to house his bones and those of his family. In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language." The biographer himself...
Among thousands of former New Jersey convicts, a new 18-page manual called Clearing the Record is must reading. Put together by two experts at a Camden legal clinic for the poor, it tells how a criminal slate can be wiped clean under a year-old state "expungement" law that is the most advanced of its kind in the nation. The statute offers no help to most repeat offenders and those guilty of serious crimes like robbery and rape; rather, it is aimed at people who have fallen afoul of the law once or twice but have otherwise...
Gerald Bohn Camden...
Something was obviously up, and Defense Attorney Ray Brown warned his client, Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., to expect the worst. Just over an hour later, the jurors returned to the federal courtroom in Brooklyn with a verdict: all four defendants were guilty of bribery, conspiracy and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. In addition to Errichetti, the defendants were Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Harry Criden, all from Philadelphia. The four were accused of sharing in a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as representatives of an Arab sheik...