| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis. By Harper Barnes. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2001. xvi, 478 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-883982-13-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-883982-17-0.)

Harper Barnes, a journalist and editor for the St. Louis Dispatch, takes on an enormous task in his biography of one of St. Louis's largest figures in Standing on a Volcano. David Rowland Francis is certainly worthy of biographical study, and the book has been long in coming. A very successful businessman, Francis became mayor of St. Louis in 1885 at the age of 34 and then was elected governor of Missouri at 38 in 1889. The erstwhile Democrat is best known outside St. Louis, however, as the controversial American ambassador to Russia from 1916 to 1919. Harper's work is the completion of research originally done by Francis's grandson, Talton Francis Ray, which utilized the extensive Francis Collection at the Missouri Historical Society Archives in St. Louis. . . .

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