Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition cloth bound hardcover of The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing.

Lansing served in the position of Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I where he vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principals of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations. He then served as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson between 1915 and 1920. He was nominated to the office after William Jennings Bryan's resignation. He negotiated the Lansing-Ishii Agreement with Japan in 1917 and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919.

Good condition. Some splitting to the back cover interior hinge but the hinge is intact. Solid book with shelf wear.