“After that the sword was drawn, it struck me that politics had vanished entirely from the scene — that it was now merely a question of patriotism or disloyalty.”
About George Henry Boker
6 October 1823–2 January 1890
In the glittering literary salons of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where gas lamps cast their warm glow over earnest conversations about poetry and politics, one figure stood at the intersection of art and public service with uncommon grace. George Henry Boker was born on October 6, 1823, into a world of privilege…