Name: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil war (Vintage Civil war Library)
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Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
ISBN: 9780375703836

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

346

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.8 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0375703837

ISBN13

9780375703836

Synopsis "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil war (Vintage Civil war Library)"

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.