Description: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust.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.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.
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Book Title: This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Death & Dying, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Military / United States, Social History, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
