Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Faust, Drew Gilpin |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 1/6/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 equivalentproportion 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 practicallevel and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedentedcarnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers andtheir families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northernersand southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War’smost 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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