This Republic of Suffering
Books | History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
3.9
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.An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half 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.With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Author
Drew Gilpin Faust
Pages
384
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2009-01-06
ISBN
0375703837 9780375703836
Ratings
Google: 5
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"This book could've easily been a dull, slow read. However, the way that it was put together created a well-organized narrative of the war with many details I hadn't heard about before. Particularly interesting were the inclusion of the attitudes, actions, and treatment of African Americans *during and immediately after* the war, which I feel are often omitted from the narrative of the Civil War. A sad but fascinating look into the impact of the huge casualties of the Civil War on American society."
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Leah Burns