Witness to the Young Republic A Yankee&8217s Journal, 1828&82111870 [Paperback]

One of the great diaries by a Washington insider personally acquainted with 12 presidents brings to life four tumultuous decades in the nation’s capital.“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.”