GDG- - This Republic of Suffering

[keith mackenzie]

  I lost interest while reading this book. I don't know why. Seems good enough all right, and easy enough to read and understand. Subject matter may be to general, or it may be inviting me to confront my own concepts of death and those left behind.
  Bit of a mystery really, but I've no inclination to pick it up again soon.
   
  (No disrespect intended.)
  K.

Tom Ryan <pennmardel at mchsi.com> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


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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>>

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for mentioning that. Faust's study is based pretty solidly on the
human side of death and dying, and she does not get too deeply into
political issues surrounding the horrendous results of the war. She does
not address racial issues in any great depth either, although she mentions
the Rebels retalitating against captured former slaves for joining the ranks
of the Union army.

Race and Reunion would be a good follow on study from a political
perspective of the negative impact on the civil rights of blacks brought
about by the post-war reconciliation between the Northern and Southern parts
of the country.

I would add that Gregory Coco's two books about Gettysburg, "A Strange and
Blighted Land" and "A Vast Sea of Misery," complement Faust's work in that
Coco provides a single-battle microcosm of the national tragedy that Faust
is concerned with.

Regards, Tom

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