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Also by Daniel Mark Epstein:

The Lincolns, June 2008
Hardcover
Lincoln and Whitman, January 2005
Paperback (reprint)

LINCOLN AND WHITMAN
By: Daniel Mark Epstein

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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