A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen (Cultural Studies of the United States)

by Bryan K . Garman (Author)

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  Walt Whitman dreamed of inspiring a race of singers who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein embraced and reconfigured Whitman's vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded.