{"product_id":"9780375703836","title":"This Republic of Suffering","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An \"extraordinary ... profoundly moving\" history \u003cb\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003eof the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn estiated 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. In \u003ci\u003eThis Republic of Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e,  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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Drew Gilpin Faust","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894201311444,"sku":"9780375703836","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_79463aea-c5ff-4673-b0b0-7079b30e8f48.jpg?v=1732464446","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780375703836","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}