This Republic of Suffering Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist) |
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| Author:
| Faust, Drew Gilpin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-375-70383-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Knopf |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $37.99 |
Book Description:
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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 thatreveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In
This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust...
More Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER .NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War thatreveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six 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.