Title: Lincoln and Whitman : parallel lives in Civil War Washington /
Authors: Epstein, Daniel Mark
Publisher: Ballantine Books,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,; Whitman, Walt,; Presidents United States Biography; Poets, American Biography; Political culture United States History; Political culture Washington (D.C.) History; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government; Washington (D.C.) History
Abstract: Discusses how the lives and thoughts of president Abraham Lincoln and poet Walt Whitman converged during and after the American Civil War, noting how each turned to the other's works for inspiration.
Contents: Part 1: Discoveries and inventions -- Part 2: The war of the rebellion -- Part 3: Drum-taps -- Part 4: Epilogue: New York, 1887.