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Author : Harry S. Stout

Date : 2007-03-27

Page : 584

Rating : 4.0

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Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil War Harry S Stout on  FREE shipping on qualifying offers 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
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ 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 wars actual conduct
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ Upon the Altar of the Nation is a provocative and disturbing moral history of the Civil War It is not a merely a religious or intellectual history but a history that explicitly makes judgments about the distances between the oughts and the actualities xii
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ 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
CWT Book Review Upon the Altar of the Nation ~ Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil War Harry S Stout Viking 2006 544 pages 2995 Historians usually try to keep their moral judgments few and understated and this book reminds us why that is a good idea
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ Stout uses classical just war theory to weigh the Civil War in the balance and finds it wanting on both sides In his view propagandistic mythmaking and romantic ideology masked both the human cost of this terrible war and its failure to resolve the nations enduring crisis over raceChristian Century 576 pages softcover Penguin Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the 
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S Stout Viking Any history of the  Civil War is a moral history because the brutal events of the war have little meaning in and of themselves and so historians must put forth 
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil  ~ The Civil War imbued the nationstate with a mystique of messianic destiny and that mystique has thereafter blinded many Americans to the moral implications of war Such is a warning from history we dare not ignore
Upon the Altar of the Nation A Moral History of the Civil War ~ Now Yale historian Harry S Stout has given us a “moral history” of the Civil War providing a unique–and disturbing–view of the years when this nation tore itself apart Stout’s “moral history” tells “difficult stories of unjust conduct on both sides of the struggle”