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 reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/06/2009
ISBN: 9780375703836
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.44w x 0.76d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/01/2009 pg. 20
People Weekly 03/23/2009 pg. 57
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 reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/06/2009
ISBN: 9780375703836
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.44w x 0.76d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/01/2009 pg. 20
People Weekly 03/23/2009 pg. 57
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