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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication Date: 2008-03-15
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 1433233444
ISBN-13: 9781433233449
Product ID: EPID65665312
Description: 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 bo...
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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.

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 the 2008 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and was selected as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s damning in-depth report on life in Baghdad's Green Zone, the cordoned-off section that was the seat of the U.S. military command as well as of the Coalition Provisional Authority, reveals case after case of a stunningly mismanaged post-invasion occupation. Chandrasekaran looks at a large number of people--military and civilian both--and credits those who tried to help, but also reports outrageous behavior that is at times inept, at other times offensive. The Coalition Provisional Authority tended to be either intrusive or woefully absent (in restoring Iraq's infrastructure, for example), and was staffed, the author claims, with politically connected people with little interest in Iraqi culture who only made things worse, not better. Chandrasekaran describes a surreal city-within-a-city and an occupying force in a state of collective denial about the realities just outside its perimeter--none of which escaped the notice of the Iraqi population, and which, Chandrasekaran asserts, fueled the insurgency. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2007.

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Publication Date:2008-03-15
Narrated by:Lorna Raver
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Height:5.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:9.6 oz

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