I wonder what age range this is marketed towards. This is a very educational book but also very very long. The illustrations have a depth and darkness that manages to convey both the horrors of war (and nineteenth century medicine) as well as the soft empathy of Whitman. This story inspired me to download Leaves of Grass, and we'll see if how it goes. After Lincoln's assassination, Whitman steps up as the nation's mourner-in-chief. And truly, Whitman is portrayed as profoundly empathetic toward the soldiers as well as toward Lincoln, whom he never seemed to meet but nonetheless felt a great connection. This is typically a role associated with feminine sensibilities, but here it is celebrated as the compassionate service it was. He never picked up a weapon, but offered comfort and humanity to the injured and dying. This story looks at Whitman's role during the U.S. There was so much tragedy, and of course, so much good being done. Thinking about all of these extraordinary ordinary men - Douglass, Whitman, and Lincoln - is overwhelming. After recently reading both Live Oak, with Moss and The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life I feel somewhat steeped in this war-torn time period. This book is a substantive contribution to the recognition of Walt Whitman and his place in American literary history for young readers.” - School Library Connection (Starred Review)Ī dark story of war, slavery, and death shot through with a glowing thread of idealism and service. The book includes the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” and an excerpt from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” brief bios of Lincoln and Whitman, a timeline of Civil War events, endnotes, and a bibliography. Whitman witnessed Lincoln’s second inauguration and mourned along with America as Lincoln’s funeral train wound its way across the landscape to his final resting place. The president was never far from the poet’s mind, and Lincoln’s “grace under pressure” was something Whitman returned to again and again in his poetry. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln’s carriage on the road. Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Dramatic, lyrical, and beautifully illustrated, author Robert Burleigh and artist Sterling Hundley’s picture book O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents.
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