John Hay: In Two Volumes; Volume 2

by William Roscoe Thayer

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486 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2015

About the author

William Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923) was an American author and editor who wrote about Italian history.

Reviews

[Chad Malkamaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This second volume on the life of John Hay really looks at his second career in politics starting as Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and as Secretary of State. Again filled with letters from Hay's life, this volume holds up with the first in the look at the Open Door Policy, the treaties that created the Panama Canal, and Hay correspondence with the leaders of letters at the end of the nineteenth century.

An interesting side note, being published in 1915, there is a very xenophobic chapter that has absolutely nothing to do with Hay and instead focuses on the evils of the German Empire. Much more a look into Thayer's patriotism than a comment on the subject, very odd for a biography.