Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass: Revising Himself - Good Gr

Walt Whitman worked at three government jobs in his time in Washington. In 1865, he was fired as a clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan, who found Leaves of Grass to be indecent.

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