Walt Whitman's Gt Manly Health

Walt Whitman was the epitome of a 19th-century American gentleman--a poet, journalist, essayist, and the father of free verse--whose legacy lives on to this day. He also had strong opinions about the manly arts of grooming, dress, working out, and health science: in 1858, under a pseudonym, Whitman wrote a nearly 50,000-word journalistic series entitled "Manly Health and Training," which wasn't known to be his work for the past 150 years. Recently rediscovered by a graduate student, it's the biggest Whitman discovery in decades. In the series, Whitman outlines how to achieve "a perfect body, a perfect blood," and dispenses advice on sports, footwear, bathing, women, alcohol, shaving, food, dancing, and mental health. Walt Whitman's Guide to Manly Health and Training excerpts the best of Whitman's treatise on masculinity in an accessible, small, illustrated format, making it the perfect gift for men of all ages.