America's first popular celebrity, the first "embedded" reporter in an American war, the man who became the standard of wildly popular writers in the Edwardian Age in America. THese stories tell of an ideal America with heros from the top strata of society to the lowest citizen, all doing the right thing for the right reason. Davis set the tone of ideal young men and women in the era before World War I. A simpler time with simpler solutions, solutions we can use today.

Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.