A flipbook version of the True Book with page-turning and read-along features (embedded AUDIO in each flash book), chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms indentified and defined. The “book” has been transformed into a versatile digital resource enabling the student to exercise the non-linear reading and viewing behaviors that we know take place with digital content.
Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract admiration.