This Republic of Suffering
Death and the American Civil War (national Book Award Finalist)
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 6, 2009
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A grave, lucid Civil War book that turns loss into a wider history of the nation.
- Genres
- Civil War Era, Civil Wars, Social History
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 6, 2009
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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 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.
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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.
Death and Nation
A grave, lucid Civil War book that turns loss into a wider history of the nation.
Come here for
- Civil War history through death, grief, and national change
- A serious conversation starter with real cultural reach
Expect
- Measured, reflective prose
- Big-picture interpretation over battlefield detail
Where it sits
| Civil War Era | 98% |
|---|---|
| Social History | 48% |
| Civil Wars | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- U.S. Military History
- Civil War Era
- Social History
- Authors
- Drew Gilpin Faust
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- January 6, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- U.S. Military History