This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Audiobook)

from Krumbs

Excellent, excellent book. It was a national book award finalist, and as far as I'm concerned it should have won. Gilpin Faust does an excellent job of making events, culture, people, emotions, reactions, deaths, lives, even statistics immediate and interesting. The amount of research that went i...

from jcbrunner

"This republic of suffering" suffers from the author's lack of familiarity with military and world history. She thus misinforms her readers, relying on the flawed book On Killing by Dave Grossman which in turn in part is based on false data. Her American readers are not given an international con...

from Narboink

Written with a studied calm, This Republic of Suffering carefully teases out bits of meaning in the rubble created by the American Civil War. Unlike many war chronicles, there is little here to gratify base interest in the macabre - although it is a book whose central subject is the lineaments of...

from keely_chace

With this book, Drew Gilpin Faust offers a thoroughly fascinating and readable analysis of death, dying and grief during the Civil War. The author considers her subject from so many angles. As a word person, I particularly enjoyed her analyses of how contemporary writers such as Walt Whitman, Emi...

from EricCostello

An extremely grim, if absorbing, book. Faust takes a look at how both sides in the American Civil War treated the issue of their dead; he focuses mostly, though not exclusively, on the dead soldiers. The book marches through a logical progression, to wit: Dying, Killing, Burying, Naming, Realizin...