John Price Jones

Born in 1877 and living until 1964, John Price Jones wrote about wartime intelligence and public affairs at a moment when those subjects were gripping readers on both sides of the Atlantic. His 1917 book The German Spy in America was published in London, while the American edition appeared as America Entangled. He later co-authored The German Secret Service in America, 1914–1918 with Paul Merrick Hollister.

Records from the Liberty Loan campaigns in the Second Federal Reserve District show him working in publicity roles during World War I, including as assistant director connected with feature and press bureau work. Those same records help explain the direct, documentary feel of his writing: he was not just describing publicity and persuasion from afar, but taking part in major public campaigns.

Jones's name also appears on later fundraising and educational-finance studies, including works on raising money for colleges and universities and publications issued by The John Price Jones Corporation. That broader career suggests an author whose influence reached beyond books, into the developing professional world of public relations and institutional fundraising.