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From 1841 to 1892, the offices of the Brooklyn Eagle stood on this site as the headquarters of a powerful newspaper. From 1846 to 1848, Walt Whitman, not yet 30 but already a seasoned journalist, served as its editor until the owner fired him for his stand against slavery in newly admitted states. His years there gave him a ringside seat on the young democracy that he would soon celebrate in "Leaves of Grass" (1855), poems that changed the way people thought about and wrote poetry.
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