GDG- This Republic of Suffering

[Margaret D. Blough]

Tom,

I'm just beginning "This Republic of Suffering", but, from your excellent review, it sounds like, as the on-line booksellers put it, if someone likes this work, they should also read David Blight's "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory".

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> The Washington Times published my review of Drew Gilpin Faust's new book 
> called "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War" in 
> today's paper. You can read it at 
> http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080209/CIVILWAR/982636261/1011. 
> 
> If the URL does not open, go to www.washtimes.com and click on Sections near 
> the top of the page then click on Civil War in the drop-down menu. An 
> advertisement will come up. Click on Go to the Page You Requested, then 
> click on the headline "A nation struggling with suffering, death." 
> 
> This book has already received national attention even though it has only 
> been out for a couple of week, and it could be nominated for a National Book 
> Award or a Pulitzer. The author has written several books on Southern 
> issues during the Civil War, and has won a number of awards for her writing. 
> Her last award-winning book was "Mothers of Invention: Women of the 
> Slaveholding South in the American Civil War." She is currently serving as 
> the president of Harvard University, the first female to hold that position. 
> 
> Regards, Tom Ryan 
> 
> 
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