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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist) 508 “Devious and deliciously dark withAuthor Contributor(s): Faust, Drew Gilpin Publisher: Vintage Date: 1 6 2009 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW NATIONAL BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST An "extraordinary profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An