Description: 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.
Brief description:
Drew Gilpin Faust is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestselling This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. A former dean and university president, she is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
Review Quotes:
"Extraordinary...overlooks nothing.'"
-- "New York Times Book Review"