This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering won the National Book Award and was a National Bestseller. 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. An estimated 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. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780307268587
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American Civil WarDeath and mourningReligion and society
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2009)
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(2009)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(2008)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2008)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2008)
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