{"product_id":"marching-home-brian-matthew-jordan-9780871407818","title":"Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War","description":"For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans-- tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions-- tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. \u003cp\u003eIn the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust's \u003cem\u003eThis Republic of Suffering\u003c\/em\u003e or Maya Jasanoff 's \u003cem\u003eLiberty's Exiles\u003c\/em\u003e that illuminate the plight of the common man, \u003cem\u003eMarching Home\u003c\/em\u003e makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Matthew Jordan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871407817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871407818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2014 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015","brand":"Brian Matthew Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065220280575,"sku":"9780871407818","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94628cf0-0795-4dba-ba9b-20d20630a2ed.jpg?v=1768673771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marching-home-brian-matthew-jordan-9780871407818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}