This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering by 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 thatreveals 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.

Drew Gilpin Faust is the president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History there. She came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Award and the Avery Craven Prize, is one of her five previous publications. Her spouse and she reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780375703836
ISBN 10	0375703837
Title	This Republic of Suffering
Author	Drew Gilpin Faust
Series	Vintage Civil War Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-01-06
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of Bancroft Prize 2009, Winner of New York Times Editors' Choice 2008, Winner of New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2008, Short-listed for National Book Awards 2008, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2008, Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2009
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