The Diplomatic Diaries of
VANCE MCCORMICK
in London and Paris
1917-1919
With Other Documents from a High-Minded American Life

Editor: Michael Barton, professor of American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg and noted authority on Harrisburg history. With Cherie Fieser, Susan Meehan, Teresa Weisser

Publisher/Date: Stackpole Books (2004)Stated First Edition, first printing.

ISBN: 0811701212

Format/Condition: Gently used hardcover book with dust jacket is in very good condition: back free endpaper has a Penn State Harrisburg sticker with the name of Park B. T. Mellott typed on it. The dust jacket is protected by a brodart cover. 400 pages, index. Several pages of b/w photos. Measures 9.3 x 6.3 inches.

Inscribed “For Park, With thanks for your support” and signed by Michael Barton. Laid in is the 2004 exhibit pamphlet of the Historical Society of Dauphin County’s biographical exhibit of Vance McCormick.

Description: In 1919 the victors of World War I gathered in Paris to negotiate the peace and determine the fate of the world. Among the American delegation was Vance Criswell McCormick (1872-1946), a member of a prominent family from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

After studying at Yale, where he was noted for his prowess on the football field, McCormick pursued an illustrious career in business and politics, including mayor of Harrisburg, publisher of the Patriot newspaper, manager of Woodrow Wilson's 1916 re-election campaign, and director of the War Trade Board.