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Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
Random House
January 2005
On Sale: January 11, 2005
400 pages
ISBN: 0345458001
EAN: 9780345458001
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
Kindred spirits despite their profound differences in
position, Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman shared a vision
of the democratic character. They had read or listened to
each other’s words at crucial turning points in their lives,
and both were utterly transformed by the tragedy of the
Civil War. In this radiant book, poet and biographer Daniel
Mark Epstein tracks the parallel lives of these two titans
from the day that Lincoln first read Leaves of Grass to the
elegy Whitman composed after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Drawing on a rich trove of personal and newspaper accounts
and diary records, Epstein shows how the influence and
reverence flowed between these two men–and brings to life
the many friends and contacts they shared. Epstein has
written a masterful portrait of two great American figures
and the era they shaped through words and deeds.
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