Bibliograph

Herbert Hoover, a life, Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen

Type

Label

Herbert Hoover, a life, Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Herbert Hoover

Oclc number

935193212

Responsibility statement

Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen

Sub title

a life

Summary

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. --, adapted from dust jacket

Table Of Contents

A Quaker orphan on the frontier -- Cardinal red -- The great engineer -- The great humanitarian -- Samaritan to a continent -- Secretary of commerce, locomotive of the economy -- Into the White House -- Getting a grip on the presidency -- Holding a finger in the dike -- Fighting the Depression -- Democracy is a harsh employer -- Challenging the New Deal -- Politics and diplomacy before the second great war -- The maelstrom of war -- The Truman years -- The Republicans return to power -- Tempest and triumph

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