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Walt Whitman: Words for America

written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick

2004

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About the book

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.

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