John W. Foster : politics and diplomacy in the imperial era, 1873-1917

The first complete biography of a keey diplomat in administrations from Grant to McKinley. HARDBACK edition. A Full-length Study Of Jame's Criticism, Tracing The Developments Of The Author's Literary Views Throughout His Career Of Five Decades. A Great And Arduous Mission -- Criticism Of Fiction, 1864-1868 -- Travel Literature And The Society Novel -- The Naturalists -- The Social Novelists: Balzac, Daudet, And Dickens -- The Psychological Novelists: Eliot, Trollope, And Turgenev -- The Romancers: Sand And Hawthorne -- The American Scene: Hawthorne's Successors -- The Art Of Fiction -- The Elegiac Impulse -- Toward A New Perspective -- Revaluations: The Romancers -- Revaluations: The Realists -- Henry James In Perspective. Sarah B. Daugherty. Chapters 1-10 Were Part Of The Author's Thesis, University Of Pennsylvania, 1973. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The biography of a politician who was a key figure in the developlment of American diplomacy for nearly forty years, served as Secretary of State, and was the grandfather of John Foster Dulles