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Witness to the Young Republic
A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
Benjamin Brown. French; Donald B. Cole, ed.; John J. McDonough, ed.




University Press of New England
1989 • 703 pp. 18 illus. 2 maps. End-paper illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4"
American History / Biography / Memoir / Political Science & Government

$50.00 Paperback, 978-1-58465-265-6




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.

Awards/Recognition:

Book-of-the-Month Club.


kristi maxwell is the author of Realm Sixty-Four, a meditation on the chess-playing automaton called The Turk.






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