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

Stout, Harry S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034703 ISBN 13: 9780670034703

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2006

Synopsis

The religious historian author of Religion and American Life analyzes how both northern and southern forces claimed to have God's support during the American Civil War, in a chronological account that explores how the war's moral conduct shifted from constitutional conflicts to a violent and unconditional quest for victory. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

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

A triumph of scholarship, of interpretation, and (in the deepest sense) of historical understanding. (John Demos, National Book Awardwinning 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: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670034703
• ISBN 13: 9780670034703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 552