Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ...

The League to Enforce Peace goes into action--Taft recalls that Roosevelt favored a League of Nations--I sail for Europe as chairman of the overseas committee--England's youthfu...

Roosevelt offers me a place in his Cabinet--I retire permanently from private business--I become Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor---The scope of the department-...

A surgical operation delays my departure--Roosevelt in Africa delighted with my return to Turkey under Taft Administration--Received by another Sultan--A royal weakling--The inv...

Turkey's jealousy of foreigners--My protest against the closing of American mission schools--Diplomacy prevents drastic regulations proposed by Turkey--The schools are reopened-...

Conferences with Ambassador Hay and Dr. Angell in London regarding Turkish matters--I make suggestions for cooerdinating work in our diplomatic service--With Baroness de Hirsch...

Roosevelt appoints me member of the Hague Tribunal--Trouble with Philippine Mohammedans averted--Humanitarian diplomacy under Roosevelt; Hay's Roumanian note; Roosevelt's Russia...

Napoleonic Era: the Sanhedrin--A forefather in Napoleon's councils--My father and the German Revolution of 1848--My father emigrates to America--My father starts business in Tal...

We motor through northern Africa--The King of Italy discusses world politics--Exploring historical ruins with the Mayor of Rome and Georg Brandes--Two Cardinals--David Lubin, in...

Paris throbs with the _Marseillaise_--A British railway conductor refuses a five-pound note--Americans panic-stricken in London--A special committee to aid Americans in Europe--...

One function of ex-diplomats--Russian refugees in flight to America--President Harrison remonstrates with Czar against persecutions--"A decree to leave one country is an order t...

Roosevelt favors Taft to succeed him--I visit Taft at Cincinnati--Roosevelt plans for his African trip--I take part in the Taft campaign--Roosevelt's method of preparedness--Ele...

The Progressive spirit is kindled and shaped into a cause--My speech at the banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1910--Roosevelt's hostility to boss rule--Liberals imp...

At sea--Our arrival in London--Concerning George Eliot and Lewes--At the banking house of Baron de Rothschild--In Paris--Boulanger's Napoleonic dreams; his suicide--Josef Hofman...

Sinister tension in the international air--The Hague Treaties--Germany's opposition to satisfactory understandings--New spirit of international good-will gains popular momentum-...

Trade unions and federated unions--Formation of the National Civic Federation--Notable industrial disputes are settled--Andrew Carnegie dines with fighting labor leaders--Marcus...

Columbia Law School--Impressions of the faculty--I begin law practice--Early partnerships--A $10,000 fee--Founding of the Young Men's Hebrew Association in 1874--The "dissipatio...

Chicago, where we both happened to be stopping--he on his return from a trip to the Far West, and I on an important business errand. He told me he and his son had read my book o...