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Walt Whitman, PBS ; written and directed by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and co-directed by Jamila Wignot ; producer, Patrick Long ; a Patrick Long Productions film in association with HiddenHill Productions for American Experience. Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; music, Joel Goodman

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Walt Whitman, PBS ; written and directed by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and co-directed by Jamila Wignot ; producer, Patrick Long ; a Patrick Long Productions film in association with HiddenHill Productions for American Experience. Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; music, Joel Goodman
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eng
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videorecording
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Walt Whitman
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videorecording DVD
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PBS ; written and directed by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and co-directed by Jamila Wignot ; producer, Patrick Long ; a Patrick Long Productions film in association with HiddenHill Productions for American Experience. Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; music, Joel Goodman
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180
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American experience
Summary
One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American Experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood on Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892 at the age of 72
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live action
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