Friends of APS Library and The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Event

Robert Roper
will present
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War

Robert Roper is a professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches writing. In graduate school, he studied with the great historian of Southern slavery, Kenneth Stampp, and with Larzer Ziff, a prolific scholar of American literary culture–both at Berkeley. Although trained as an historian, Roper took a thirty-year holiday during which he mostly wrote novels?he is an American writer saturated with American literature.

Robert Roper’s Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War is a delicious take on the Civil War: an intimate family biography of the Whitman family during this terrible contest told through the back and forth of letters. Meticulously researched, it is by turns fresh, illuminating, and touching.

Lecture, reception, and booksigning
Friday, February 6, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
5:30pm

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