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

Stout, John B Madden Master Of Berkeley College And Jonathan Edwards Professor Of American Christianity Harry S

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ISBN 10: 0143038761 ISBN 13: 9780143038764

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007

Synopsis

Upon the Altar of the Nation 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 tren... Full description

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Review:

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)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143038761
• ISBN 13: 9780143038764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552