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When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's... Read Full Overview

"This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered . . . a book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and not soon forget". -- Library Journal New American Writing Award