Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government To Save Lives

A memoir about eh author's father, Hiram Bingham IV, a diplomat in Marseilles, France, in 1940-41, who rescued many Jews and anti-Nazis by giving them visas to America - not America's policy at the time. Bingham had to resign from the Foreign Service. Sixty years later, the State Department called Bingham's action "constructive dissent". Also about his wife and their eleven children, it tells of the long, successful drive by the author for the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp("Distinguished American Diplomats") in his father's honor in 2006.Bingham, Robert Kim is the author of 'Courageous Dissent: How Harry Bingham Defied His Government To Save Lives' with ISBN 9780961360238 and ISBN 0961360232.