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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.
An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/06/2009
Series: Vintage Civil War Library
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.44w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780375703836
An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/06/2009
Series: Vintage Civil War Library
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.44w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780375703836
