As the only surviving statesman of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Jan Smuts arrived for the first session of the United Nations in New York in 1946 to celebratory chants. His departure, a month and a half later, was terrifyingly dissimilar. The "counsellor of nations” left a dejected man, with his honour, power and glory severely dented. This book chronicles the ambivalent cosmopolitanism of Jan Smuts.