Author: David Haven Blake

Liking Ike reveals the prominent role that celebrities and advertising agencies played in Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. Guided by Madison Avenue executives and television pioneers, Eisenhower culti …

Liking Ike reveals the prominent role that celebrities and advertising agencies played in Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. Guided by Madison Avenue executives and television pioneers, Eisenhower culti …

What is the relationship between poetry and fame?   What happens to a reader’s experience when a poem invokes its author’s popularity?  Is there a meaningful connection between poetry …

Whitman’s poetry is full of places where he directly addresses his future readers, acknowledges the time span between them, then shrugs it off. "The greatest poet, " he writes in his prefac …