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Author Scott, James Brown

Title Robert Bacon - Life And Letters [Illustrated Edition]
Published San Francisco : Lucknow Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (469 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; FOREWORD; FOREWORD BY GABRIEL HANOTAUX; PART I -- THE BACONS; CHAPTER I -- A GOODLY INHERITANCE; PART II -- EARLY LIFE; CHAPTER II -- HARVARD COLLEGE DAYS; CHAPTER III -- THE RACE AROUND THE WORLD; CHAPTER IV -- MARRIAGE; PART III -- THE WORLD OF FINANCE; CHAPTER V -- THE RELIEF OF THE GOVERNMENT; CHAPTER VI -- THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION; CHAPTER VII -- THE NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY; PART IV -- THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE; CHAPTER VIII -- THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY; THE PEACE OF THE MARBLEHEAD -- INTERVENTION OF THE UNITED STATES IN CUBA, 1906; THE DOMINICAN LOAN
THE PORTO RICAN CHURCH PROPERTY SETTLEMENTTHE PANAMA AFFAIR; CHAPTER IX -- SECRETARY OF STATE; A PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; THE CONFERENCE FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; PART V -- THE MISSION TO FRANCE; CHAPTER X -- THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR; THE PARIS FLOOD; COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S VISIT; CHAPTER XI -- THE FRIEND OF FRANCE -- THE BAPTISM OF AMERICA; DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUES; RESIGNATION; PART VI -- FELLOW OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY; CHAPTER XII -- IN SERVICE TO HARVARD; PART VII -- FOR BETTER RELATIONS WITH OUR LATIN-AMERICAN NEIGHBOURS; CHAPTER XIII -- THE VISIT TO SOUTH AMERICA
PART VIII -- PREPAREDNESSCHAPTER XIV -- THE FIRST YEARS OF THE WAR; CHAPTER XV -- PLATTSBURG; CHAPTER XVI -- CANDIDACY FOR THE SENATE; PART IX -- MILITARY SERVICE; CHAPTER XVII -- POST COMMANDANT AT CHAUMONT; CHAPTER XVIII -- CHIEF OF MISSION AT BRITISH GENERAL HEADQUARTERS; CHAPTER XIX -- AFTER THE ARMISTICE; CHAPTER XX -- HOME
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Subject Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919.
SUBJECT Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919. fast (OCoLC)fst00006239
Subject Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Capitalists and financiers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Haig, Field-Marshal Earl
Root, Root
ISBN 9781782891710
1782891714