Under Four Administrations, From Cleveland to Taft
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. Second Printing. 456, illus., index, weakness to front board, sticker residue inside front board, some wear to board & spine edges. The author was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, three times Minister and Ambassador to Turkey, and a former Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Straus wrote to President McKinley in March 1898 with a plan to avert war with Spain. At the time of the Spanish-American War, he accepted the position as minister to Turkey at theurging of President McKinley who feared that the volatile situation there might result in another incident like the blowing up of the Maine. Straus discusses the make-up of the Spanish American Peace Commission on p. 128. Chapter VII (pp. 163-193) discusses his service under President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Hague Tribunal. This chapter also discusses Roosevelt and organized labor, Roosevelt's definition of Americanism, Roosevelt's prophetic characterization of German, and some of Roosevelt's essential qualities, among other topics. Chapter IX (pp. 207-270) discusses Straus' service in Roosevelt's cabinet as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Condition: fair to good.
Keywords: Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Presidents, Spanish-Am War, Diplomacy, Turkey, Memoirs
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