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...examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...
...contribution. They think Wild Bill Hickok's real name was Bill." (As every authentic German cowboy knows, his forenames were James Butler.) Old Joe, like many of his Western Bund friends, refuses to watch the two U.S.-made westerns currently appearing on West German TV, Gunsmoke and The Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren...
...year is 1947, and most Americans cannot yet fully believe what the Nazis did. A young Virginian nicknamed Stingo is in New York, trying to write a first novel. He is callow in the ways of most aspiring authors but feels guilty about living off his small inheritance, since the money can be traced back to a slave sold by his family nearly a century earlier. Stingo takes a room in a Brooklyn boardinghouse and soon be comes involved with two other tenants: Nathan Landau, an American Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Gentile who bears...
...Stewart to announce a routine decision on a pensions benefit case, then announced a minor decision himself. Finally it came, third on the list: Case No. 76-811. Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. As a hush enveloped the courtroom, Associate Justice Lewis Powell, a frail, bespectacled Virginian, began to speak in an emotionless monotone: "Perhaps no case in my memory has had so much media coverage. We speak today with a notable lack of unanimity. I will try to explain how we divided...
...state 13 years ago as an antipoverty worker, was finally able to put to rest the carpetbagger issue by emphasizing his four years of service as West Virginia's secretary of state and his two years as president of Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. "I am a West Virginian," insisted the New York City-born Democrat. "My kids were born here. Try and tell them they're not West Virginians...