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Herbert Hoover

Author : Glen Jeansonne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110199102X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by Glen Jeansonne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full… [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Freedom from Fear Prizewinning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood president, offering up a surprising new portrait of Herbert Hoover—dismissing previous assumptions and revealing a political Progressive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt, and the most resourceful American since Benjamin Franklin. Orphaned at an early age and raised with strict Quaker values, Hoover earned his way through Stanford University. His hardworking ethic drove him to a successful career as an engineer and multinational businessman. After the Great War, he led a humanitarian effort that fed millions of Europeans left destitute, arguably saving more lives than any man in history. As commerce secretary under President Coolidge, Hoover helped modernize and galvanize American industry, and orchestrated the rehabilitation of the Mississippi Valley after the Great Flood of 1927. As president, Herbert Hoover became the first chief executive to harness federal power to combat a crippling global recession. Though Hoover is often remembered as a “do-nothing” president, Jeansonne convincingly portrays a steadfast leader who challenged congress on an array of legislation that laid the groundwork for the New Deal. In addition, Hoover reformed America’s prisons, improved worker safety, and fought for better health and welfare for children. Unfairly attacked by Franklin D. Roosevelt and blamed for the Depression, Hoover was swept out of office in a landslide. Yet as FDR’s government grew into a bureaucratic behemoth, Hoover became the moral voice of the GOP and a champion of Republican principles—a legacy re-ignited by Ronald Reagan and which still endures today. A compelling and rich examination of his character, accomplishments and failings, this is the magnificent biography of Herbert Hoover we have long waited for. INCLUDES PHOTOS

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780943875415
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson written by Herbert Hoover and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of emergencies, 1917-1918

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393038415
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of emergencies, 1917-1918 by : George H. Nash

Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of emergencies, 1917-1918 written by George H. Nash and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.

Herbert Hoover

Author : William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429933496
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by William E. Leuchtenburg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover—an engineer by training—exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. As president, however, Hoover was sorely tested by America's first crisis of the twentieth century: the Great Depression. Renowned New Deal historian William E. Leuchtenburg demonstrates how Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government and his belief that volunteerism would solve all social ills. As Leuchtenburg shows, Hoover's attempts to enlist the aid of private- sector leaders did little to mitigate the Depression, and he was routed from office by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. From his retirement at Stanford University, Hoover remained a vocal critic of the New Deal and big government until the end of his long life. Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of this lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history.

Hoover

Author : Kenneth Whyte
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774387X
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Hoover written by Kenneth Whyte and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, his battle against the Great Depression, and their own history. An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression. Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly recreates Hoover’s rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of a ruthless Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy's "New Frontier." Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hoover’s complexities and contradictions—his modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosity—as well as his profound political legacy. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by any American of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hoover’s momentous life and volatile times.

Freedom Betrayed

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817912363
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Betrayed written by George H. Nash and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.

The Life of Herbert Hoover: The humanitarian, 1914-1917

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393025507
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of Herbert Hoover: The humanitarian, 1914-1917 by : George H. Nash

Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover: The humanitarian, 1914-1917 written by George H. Nash and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.

American Individualism

Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher : Garden City, Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Individualism written by Herbert Hoover and published by Garden City, Doubleday. This book was released on 1922 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hoover expounds and vigorously defends what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argues that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character.

Herbert Hoover in the White House

Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648693
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover in the White House written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job. Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, unsympathetic, and even paralyzed by national events, Hoover faced an uphill battle in the face of the Great Depression. Many historians dismiss him as merely ineffective. But in Herbert Hoover in the White House, Charles Rappleye investigates memoirs and diaries and thousands of documents kept by members of his cabinet and close advisors to reveal a very different figure than the one often portrayed. This “gripping” (Christian Science Monitor) biography shows that the real Hoover lacked the tools of leadership. In public Hoover was shy and retiring, but in private Rappleye shows him to be a man of passion and sometimes of fury, a man who intrigued against his enemies while fulminating over plots against him. Rappleye describes him as more sophisticated and more active in economic policy than is often acknowledged. We see Hoover watching a sunny (and he thought ignorant) FDR on the horizon, experimenting with steps to relieve the Depression. The Hoover we see here—bright, well meaning, energetic—lacked the single critical element to succeed as president. He had a first-class mind and a second-class temperament. Herbert Hoover in the White House is an object lesson in the most, perhaps only, talent needed to be a successful president—the temperament of leadership. This “fair-handed, surprisingly sympathetic new appraisal of the much-vilified president who was faced with the nation's plunge into the Great Depression…fills an important niche in presidential scholarship” (Kirkus Reviews).

Herbert Hoover

Author : David Burner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945707370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by David Burner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of President Herbert Hoover.

Years of adventure, 1874-1920

Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Years of adventure, 1874-1920 written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Herbert Hoover

Author : G. Jeansonne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137346735
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover written by G. Jeansonne and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover 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.

The Life of Herbert Hoover

Author : K. Clements
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107907
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover written by K. Clements and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States.

Herbert Hoover and Stanford University

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817986936
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover and Stanford University written by George H. Nash and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Nash's research reveals the enduring ties that bound Hoover to Stanford University.

The Crusade Years, 1933–1955

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0817916768
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Crusade Years, 1933–1955 written by George H. Nash and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting “crusade against collectivism” in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman eras, and its window on Hoover's private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites readers to reflect on the factors that made his extraordinarily fruitful postpresidential years possible. The pages of this memoir recount the story of Hoover's later life, his abiding political philosophy, and his vision of the nation that gave him the opportunity for service. This is, in short, a remarkable saga told in the former president's own words and in his own way that will appeal as much to professional historians and political scientists as it will lay readers interested in history.

Hoover the Fishing President

Author : Hal Elliott Wert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768937
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Hoover the Fishing President written by Hal Elliott Wert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensely private and shy man, Hoover the person was largely unknown to the American public. In this extensively researched biography devoted to the angling side of Hoover, author Hal Elliott Wert examines the often overlooked life of our thirty-first president. In a presidency plagued by the Depression, in a time when the country was poised between the agrarian society of the past and the advent of a modern professional class, Herbert Hoover faced numerous challenges. A thinker and a doer who shaped the way we live today, Hoover found relief from the stresses of his professional life in his pastime, fishing. Herbert Hoover fished near his hometown of West Branch, Iowa, as a boy and then moved to Oregon, where he fished the Rogue, Willamette, McKenzie, and Columbia rivers. As a young man, he attended Stanford and fished and camped throughout the West during breaks. He fished and spent time in the outdoors throughout his life and especially in his years as president. He founded Cave Man Camp at Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco, a yearly getaway for powerful Republicans, and Camp Rapidan in Virginia while he was in the White House. In addition to freshwater fishing, Hoover enjoyed fishing the salt. On trips to Florida later in his life, he stalked bonefish and fished for permit and the larger species, such as sailfish.

The Life of Herbert Hoover

Author : Kendrick A. Clements
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230103085
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover written by Kendrick A. Clements and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover’s life and career from 1918 to 1928—a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States. It tells the story of how Hoover the engineering progressive turned relief and war manager developed a public philosophy for dealing with a wide array of problems. It also fits Hoover into the larger thought, action, and developmental patterns of the period, interweaving his family matters, business affairs, and other projects with the larger historical context.