This republic of suffering [sound recording] : death and the American Civil War / by Drew Gilpin Faust.
2008
E468.9 .F385 2008ab (Mapit)
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Title
This republic of suffering [sound recording] : death and the American Civil War / by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Author
Faust, Drew Gilpin.
ISBN
9781433233425
1433233428
1433233428
Publication Details
[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio Inc., 2008.
Language
English
Description
9 sound discs (ca. 11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number
E468.9 .F385 2008ab
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/1
Distributor No.
Z4772 Blackstone Audio
Summary
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description.
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Unabridged.
Read by Lorna Raver.
Read by Lorna Raver.
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Compact discs.
Added Author
Raver, Lorna.
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