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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
by STOUT, Harry S
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0670034703
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034703
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 552pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Tight, attractive first edition.
Synopsis
A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war’s actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mix of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and off the battlefield. At a time when our country is once again at war, Upon the Altar of the Nation is a deeply necessary book.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43438
- Title
- Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
- Author
- STOUT, Harry S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670034703
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034703
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Religion; Civil War;
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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