TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerley,Barbara
TI  - Walt Whitman: Words for America
SN  - 0-439-35791-8
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic Press
KW  - Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - Nurses
N1  - Honor book for the Robert F. Sibert Award. Donated by the Adopt-A-Book program
N2  - 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
ER  -