WWI: The Peace Negotiations by Robert Lansing 1921 1st Ed. HC Illus. VG!

Description: WWI: The Peace Negotiations. A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York 1921. FIRST Edition. 328 pp. including index. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Gilt lettering (faded) on front cover and spine. With name plate of "The College Club of Seattle" attached to the inside of the front over. Former owner name on blind. All hinges perfectly intact. With "College Club Library" perfin on title page. Frontispiece with guard tissue. Illustrated from b/w photographs. A crisp and clean copy in VERY GOOD condition, please see photos for details. Robert Lansing (October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as Counselor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. A conservative pro-business Democrat, he was a strong advocate of democracy and of the United States' role in establishing international law. He was an avowed enemy of German autocracy and Russian Bolshevism. Before U.S. involvement in the war, Lansing vigorously advocated freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations. He later advocated U.S. participation in World War I, negotiated the Lansing–Ishii Agreement with Japan in 1917 and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919. However, Wilson made Colonel House his chief foreign policy advisor because Lansing privately opposed much of the Treaty of Versailles and was skeptical of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Combined shipment and international bidders. Selling off a big collection of books and other collectibles, so please bookmark me as seller and come back to see my latest listings. There's much more to come... Thank you!

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