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Title: This Republic of Suffering

Subtitle: Death and the American Civil War

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 167 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Throughout, the viewpoints of soldiers, families, statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons and nurses, Northerners and Southerners, slaveholders, freed people, the most exalted, and the most humble are brought together to give a vivid understanding of the Civil War's widely shared reality.

Critic Reviews:

"Beautifully written, honest, and penetrating...Anyone wanting to understand the 'real war' and its transcendent meaning must face the facts Faust arrays before us...Essential." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

a unique civil war perspective

This is a wonderful book. A new & unique twist on understanding the Civil War, which is an amazing accomplishment given all that there is already. Beautifully written and beautifully read. Each chapter/subject seems to roll seamlessly into the next, so you hardly notice the page (I mean minutes) roll by. One of the best history books I've listened to from Audible in several years.

This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust's perspective on the Civil War is a must read for anyone who loves history and understands how our past shapes our present. Although at times the details are unflinching and grisly, they are included to paint a graphic picture of the true cost of war, and to put pain, loss and grief in true perspective. This should be required reading for American history students.

Schoolmarm narrator

The book is well researched and interesting(and somewhat tedious if you are not "into" Civil War history) . The narrators treatment of letters and papers from the period is a problem however. She adopts a schoolmarm tone that is both dismissive of and condescending to the people that wrote the documents. I found that irritating.

Good book - terrible narration

The narrator reminded me of the voice of Rudolph in the old claymation cartoon, but the book was well written and informative.

Astonishing!

I now have a great understanding of the magnitude and effects of this war on the men and women that had to endure.