Democratic Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy

Democratic Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy is a series of literary profiles featuring artists and arts leaders who live and work at the intersection of the arts and democratic life. Democratic Vistas set out to find great writers to tell great stories about very interesting people. What holds the essays together as a set is a sense that their subjects, though infinitely diverse in the details, live and work somewhere out there on that "democratic vista," the hopeful horizon line Walt Whitman spied long ago comprising the arts, the swirling diversity of American communities, and the hopeful promise of the good society.