Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
by Benjamin Brown French edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough
University Press of New England, 2002 Paper: 978-1-58465-265-6
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“French knew almost everybody and was interested in almost everything; and his journal provides a shrewd, lively and most entertaining trip through American life from J. Q. Adams and Jackson to Lincoln and Grant.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.