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Mr. Whittemore is right most of the time and interesting all the time... Biography is a troubled genre--but, as this book testifies brilliantly, a fascinating one. --Washington Times Whittemore treats his subjects genially and kindly, but without missing a critical trick. His book is full of illuminations, anecdotal and aphoristic, about the largely unexamined idea of character, public and private, and I read it with much delight. --Howard Nemerov

Whittemore treats his subjects genially and kindly, but without missing a critical trick. His book is full of illuminations, anecdotal and aphoristic, about the largely unexamined idea of character, public and private, and I read it with much delight. * Howard Nemerov * Mr. Whittemore is right most of the time and interesting all the time... Biography is a troubled genre-but, as this book testifies brilliantly, a fascinating one. * Washington Times *

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Reed Whittemore was the former literary editor of the New Republic and twice the poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. He was also a poet laureate of the United States and a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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