During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives--equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the ermous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed t only individual lives, but the life of the nation, and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the viewpoints of soldiers, families, statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, Northerners and Southerners, slaveholders and freed people, the most exalted, and the most humble are brought together to give a vivid understanding of the Civil War's widely shared reality.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-10
1433233452
ISBN-13
9781433233456
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189275974
Product Key Features
Author
Professor Drew Gilpin Faust
Format
CD-Audio, MP3 Format
Language
English
Subject
Military History
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Running Time
660
Read by
Lorna Raver
Date of Publication
01/04/2008
Country of Publication
United States
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