Robert Bacon
Life and Letters

by James Brown Scott

Introduction by the Honorable Elihu Root

Foreword by Field Marshall The Right Honourable Earl Haig

Front Cover:

This is a very neat old book. It tells about this famous Secretary of State, but it also tells a lot about the events of the day and his service in the Great War (World War I). This “First Edition” book was published in 1923 by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. The book measures 6 ˝ inches by 9 5/8 inches and contains xix, 459 pages. The blue cloth cover has an embossed textured finish. The cover has title in gilt on the front and down the spine. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine (which are slightly frayed). The top corner of the back cover is slightly “bumped.” The cloth covering the back cover is a bit “wrinkled” in a couple places. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The front hinge has been reinforced with hinge conservation tape. The pages are printed on good quality paper and show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is near very good.


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Contents:

    Introduction
    Foreword
    M. Robert Bacon

    Part I – The Bacons

  1. A Goodly Inheritance

    2. Part II – Early Life

  2. Harvard College Days
  3. The Race Around the World
  4. Marriage

    5. Part III – The World of Finance

  5. The Relief of the Government
  6. The United States Steel Corporation
  7. The Northern Securities Company

    8. Part IV – The Department of the State

  8. The Assistant Secretary
    • The Peace of the Marblehead
    • Intervention of the United States in Cuba, 1906
    • The Dominican Loan
    • The Porto-Rican Church Property Settlement
    • The Panama Affair

  9. Secretary of the State
    • A Permanent Court of International Justice
    • The Conference for the Conservation of Natural Resources

    Part V – The Mission to France

  10. The American Ambassador
    • The Paris Flood
    • Colonel Roosevelt’s Visit

  11. The “Friend of France”
    • The Baptism of America
    • Diplomatic Colleagues
    • Resignation

    Part VI – Fellow of Harvard University

  12. In Service to Harvard

    13. Part VII – For Better Relations with our Latin-American Neighbors

  13. The Visit to South America

    14. Part VIII – Preparedness

  14. The First Years of the War
  15. Plattsburg
  16. Candidacy for the Senate

    17. Part IX – Military Service

  17. Post Commandant at Chaumont
  18. Chief of Mission at British General Headquarters
  19. After the Armistice
  20. Home

    21. Index


Title Page


Title Page - Verso

Excerpt - Introduction:
It is difficult for any one who knew Robert Bacon well to write about him with such reserve as will commend itself to strangers. To his friends only superlatives seem adequate. To them what he seems infinitely more than the record of any career could possibly be. It was a distinguished and useful career, yet his usefulness consisted not merely in what he did but still more in the impression produced by his persuasive and compelling personality and his intense convictions upon the great events in which he played a part…
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Frontispiece: Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State


Birthplace of Robert Bacon
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts


Robert Bacon, Harvard Undergraduate


The Harvard Crew
Robert Bacon rowing seven


During the Roosevelt Administration, with Mr. Bacon as Secretary of State


Robert Bacon at Plattsburg
In 1915, when the former Secretary of State became Private Bacon


The Battlefield of St. Quentin
Col. A.F. Fletcher, Bacon, General Sir Douglas Haig, Col. J. Haizleton


General Petain Presenting the Legion D’honneur, 1918

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