A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary

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A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission This page intentionally left blank FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT John Maxwell Hamilton, Series Editor Illuminating the development of foreign news gathering at a time when it has never been more important, “From Our Own Correspondent” is a series of books that features forgotten works and unpublished memoirs by pioneering foreign correspondents. Series editor John Maxwell Hamilton, once a foreign correspondent himself, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Baker with President Wilson in Paris, 1919. Reproduced with permission from Ray Stannard Baker: The Mind and Thought of a Progressive, by Robert C. Bannister Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966). RAY STANNARD BAKER’S WORLD WAR I DIARY AJOURNALIST’S DIPLOMATIC MISSION Edited, with an Introduction, by JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON and ROBERT MANN with assistance from D’SEANTE PARKS Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2012 by John Maxwell Hamilton and Robert Mann All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing DESIGNER: Michelle A. Neustrom TYPEFACE: Vulpa PRINTER: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. BINDER: Dekker Bookbinding LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870–1946. A journalist’s diplomatic mission : Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I diary / edited, with an introduction , by John Maxwell Hamilton and Robert Mann with assistance from D’Seante Parks. p. cm. — (From our own correspondent) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8071-4423-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8071-4424-4 (pdf) — ISBN 978-08071 -4425-1 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-4426-8 (mobi) 1. Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870–1946—Diaries. 2. World War, 1914–1918—Personal narratives, American. 3. World War, 1914–1918—Press coverage—United States. 4. War correspondents— United States—Diaries. I. Hamilton, John Maxwell. II. Mann, Robert, 1958– III. Parks, D’Seante. IV. Title. D632.B35 2012 940.3092—dc23 2012005571 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ⬁ 䊊 ...