| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9781433233432 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 3/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207384440 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 4.5H x 6.5L x 2.75T |
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| | | During the Civil War 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. The equivalent proportion of todays population would be six million. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual.
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In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or decomposed), the challenges of disposal, and the often futile efforts by families to identify or even find the lost, all had profound effects on survivors. Faust explores how religion played a major role in people's views on death, and on the war and its carnage. She provides fascinating accounts of the rise of new institutions and practices, including undertaking and embalming, as well as private and national burial grounds. And she tells how families sometimes hired searchers to scour battlefields to find or report on the fate of their lost loved ones. Painful to read at times, THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING wipes away stale views of a war that ripped open people's hearts, as it confronts, in depth, the profound impact of the loss of over 620,0000 individuals. THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING was a finalist for both the 2008 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history, and was selected as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008.
| Author Bio| Drew Gilpin Faust | | American historian Drew Gilpin Faust made history herself in 2007, when she was named the first woman president of Harvard University. Dr. Faust is known for her books on the Civil War period, the most famous being the prize-winning MOTHERS OF INVENTION: WOMEN OF THE SLAVEHOLDING SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Faust graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. Formerly, at Harvard, she was dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where she encouraged new scholars and promoted the study of science. |
| Awards |
National Book Award (2008) |  | finalist, Nonfiction | |
National Book Critics Circle Award (2008) | | | finalist, Nonfiction | |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2008) | | | finalist, History | |
Pulitzer Prize (2009) | | | finalist, History | | |
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