Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America’s Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris

This is the remarkable and inspiring story—told largely in his own words—of American diplomat Elihu Washburne, who heroically aided his countrymen and other foreign nationals when Paris was devastated by war and revolution in 1870–71. Elihu Washburne rose from a hardscrabble existence in New England and the Midwest to become a congressman and d More »