The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches on de Stauffer, John; Soskis, Benjamin - 2013

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First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the author. There is a crease on the bottom of the book from shelf wear (see photos). Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.In this sweeping study, John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis show how this Civil War tune has become an anthem for cause after radically different cause. The song originated in antebellum revivalism, with the melody of the camp-meeting favorite, "Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us." Union soldiers in the Civil War then turned it into "John Brown's Body." Julia Ward Howe, uncomfortable with Brown's violence and militancy, wrote the words we know today. Using intense apocalyptic and millenarian imagery, she captured the popular enthusiasm of the time, the sense of a climactic battle between good and evil; yet she made no reference to a particular time or place, allowing it to be exported or adapted to new conflicts, including Reconstruction, sectional… Leer más

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