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The life of Herbert Hoover

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The life of Herbert Hoover
Author:	Nash, George H.,
other author:	Clements, Kendrick A.,
Published:	New York :W.W. Norton,c1983-<2010>
Description:	v. <1-4 > :ill. ;24 cm.
Notes:	Vol. 4 by Kendrick A. Clements ; [v. 5] by Glen Jeansonne.
Subject:	PresidentsBiography.United States
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137111890 (electronic bk.)

The life of Herbert Hoover
Nash, George H.,1945-

The life of Herbert Hoover[electronic resource]. - 1st ed. - New York :W.W. Norton,c1983-<2010> - v. <1-4 > :ill. ;24 cm.

Vol. 4 by Kendrick A. Clements ; [v. 5] by Glen Jeansonne.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

The Long Dusty Road from West Branch -- Landslide -- Prepping for the Presidency and Sparring with Congress -- Humanizing Hoover -- A Whirling Dervish -- The Engine of Prosperity Jumps the Track -- The Seventy-First Congress: Fighting the Political Wars -- Hoover and the World: Foreign Policy, 1929-1930 -- A Polarized Party -- Combating the Depression: Phase One, 1929-1930 -- The Seventy-Second Congress: Frustrating, Yet Fruitful -- Fighting the Depression: Phase II, 1931-1932 -- Frustrated Farmers, Angry Veterans -- Race, Gender, and Labor -- The Grim Reaper Stalks the World: Foreign Affairs, 1931-1933 -- Life in the White House: Personal and Social -- The Peter Pan in Hoover: Children and Fish -- The Fourth Estate -- Running for His Life: The Election of 1932 -- The Hard Interregnum -- Fighting Quaker -- --.

This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood, most neglected and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Born in a Quaker hamlet in Iowa, orphaned at nine, Herbert Hoover rose to wealth and world fame as an international mining engineer, the savior of Belgium during the Great War, and Food Administrator under Woodrow Wilson. Perhaps the greatest Secretary of Commerce in American history, he helped engineer the prosperity of the 1920s and vainly warned of an economy overheated by speculation that collapsed in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Combining government with private resources, he became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. Modest, shy, humble, with a subtle sense of humor, he lacked the self-promotional style of professional politicians and eschewed political invective. His depression measures mitigated the effects of the depression yet failed to end it. In foreign policy he sponsored naval disarmament, refused to recognition territory seized by force, and made world peace his priority. Maligned as a miserly misanthrope, he was blamed for the crash and depression during the 1932 campaign, which he lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by a slightly larger margin than he had defeated Al Smith in 1928. Jeansonne's study sweeps away the cobwebs of neglect from Hoover's presidency and his lively prose humanizes and evokes greater understanding of our thirty-first president.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781137111890 (electronic bk.)

Source: 612238Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

245067
Hoover, Herbert,
1874-1964.Subjects--Topical Terms:

392381
Presidents
--United States--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E802 / .N37 1983

Dewey Class. No.: 973.91/6/0924

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