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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War Softcover - 2007

by Harry S. Stout

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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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U S. A.: Penguin Books, Limited. Fine. 2007. First Thus. Softcover. 0143038761 552pp including bibliography and index A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the war between the states Book is a little cocked, otherwise As New .
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  • Title Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
  • Author Harry S. Stout
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Limited, U S. A.
  • Date 2007
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 95158
  • ISBN 9780143038764 / 0143038761
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.06 x 1.3 in (22.71 x 15.39 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.71

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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.

From the publisher

Harry S. Stout is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University and the author of The New England Soul. He has received an NEH Research Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among other awards. Currently the editor of the twenty-seven volume series of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Professor Stout has coedited the seventeen-volume series Religion and American Life designed for public schools.

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A triumph of scholarship, of interpretation, and (in the deepest sense) of historical understanding. (John Demos, National Book Award–winning author of The Unredeemed Captive)

Thought provoking . . . asks many of the right questions. (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books)

Citations

  • Christian Century, 05/03/2011, Page 34

About the author

Harry S. Stout is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University and the author of The New England Soul. He has received an NEH Research Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among other awards. Currently the editor of the twenty-seven volume series of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Professor Stout has coedited the seventeen-volume series Religion and American Life designed for public schools.

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