This Republic of Suffering

Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

By:

Drew Gilpin Faust

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Vintage Civil War Library

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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 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.

Author Biography:

DREW GILPIN FAUST was president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five previous books, including Mothers of Invention- Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Release date Australia

January 6th, 2009

Author

Drew Gilpin Faust

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

56 b&w

Pages

384

Series

Vintage Civil War Library

Dimensions

132x203x20

ISBN-13

9780375703836

Product ID

3979717

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