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Essay on Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman

Myron Hieronymous Thomas Episode 5

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 In this episode, we'll feature an essay written by Walt Whitman after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and appeared in the complete prose works of Walt Whitman, in 1892. Having met Lincoln personally, his essay on the slain president gives a first-person account of the man and, according to the author, his legacy. Read by Myron Hieronymous Thomas.