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The original hippie. I was not aware of the deep affection that Whitman engendered within the reading public. Kaplan does a good job of capturing what it was that drew people to the poet. I visited Whitman's house in Camden NJ last summer, which lead me to read Leaves of Grass for the first time, and then to this book. I wish I had discovered this poetry decades ago. This book seemed to end abruptly, but maybe that is a good way to end a biography. Life tends to end abruptly.