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- To say that Whitman admired Lincoln would be a terrific understatement—he saw the Union itself, America itself, incarnated in him. (en)
- Terrible, cleansing, and restorative for the nation, the Civil War became the central imaginative event of Whitman's middle life and Lincoln his personal agent of redemption, a symbolic figure who transcended politics, leadership, and victory. (en)
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