{"product_id":"book-bj1b","title":"Marching Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eMining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s \u003cem\u003eThis Republic of Suffering \u003c\/em\u003eor 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","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385117843760,"sku":"BDbj1b","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49385117942064,"sku":"ZEbj1b","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49385117974832,"sku":"ZMbj1b","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/264554-bj1b-Square.jpg?v=1735123612","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bj1b","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}