Publisher's Synopsis
This study provides a portrait of Horace Porter as a man at war, work, and in service to his country over several decades from the mid-19th century through World War II. It offers a commentary of the emergence of the US as a world power and many diplomatic and international issues of the decades around the turn of the 20th century. It follows Porter from his service as an aid to Grant in the Civil War through his career as Ambassador to France and beyond.
