{"product_id":"democratic-vistas-and-other-papers-paperback","title":"Democratic Vistas and Other Papers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label \"The Gilded Age.\" Whitman criticizes America for its \"mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry\" that mask an underlying \"dry and flat Sahara\" of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population: \"Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.\" Whitman was one of the few writers to keep the Emersonian faith in individual and cultural regeneration after the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 7.52 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107133911341,"sku":"9781410100665","price":27.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/SGx4RkQzMW5aYjZNNkRCVEFGZVlDUT09.webp?v=1780416422","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/democratic-vistas-and-other-papers-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}