{"product_id":"upon-the-altar-of-the-nation-isbn-9780143038764","title":"Upon the Altar of the Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eA profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eUpon the Altar of the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply necessary book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA triumph of scholarship, of interpretation, and (in the deepest sense) of historical understanding. (John Demos, National Book Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unredeemed Captive\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThought provoking . . . asks many of the right questions. (James M. McPherson, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)Harry S. Stout is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University and the author of \u003cb\u003eThe New England Soul\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003cb\u003eThe Works of Jonathan Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Stout has coedited the seventeen-volume series \u003cb\u003eReligion and American Life\u003c\/b\u003e designed for public schools.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303128092901,"sku":"NP9780143038764","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143038764.jpg?v=1767743323","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/upon-the-altar-of-the-nation-isbn-9780143038764","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}