This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 037540404X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404047
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Synopsis
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five previous books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21390
- Title
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
- Author
- Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 037540404X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404047
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 037540404X, Civil War, Death
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