Herbert hoover presidential biography books

You have generally provided positive reviews of his other bios. Tanner, eds. January 31, at am. Great to hear! Herbert Hoover and the great depression. Van Nostrand Company, inc. Ohio State University Press, [c] xiv, p. He envisioned great voluntary programs to promote standardization and simplification in American industries that would permit companies to pay both high profits and high wages.

But in this gem among books on Herbert Hoover , 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. December 13, at pm. Leuchtenburg 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 s.

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Paul C. James Salerno said: December 13, at pm. He makes a powerful plea for reform measures that start with cleaning up our rivers and ridding them of pollution. The Mining magazine, University Press of America, c Avoid that temptation for Hoover. July 26, at am. Not many other Republicans are generally considered staunch conservationists although Grant started the National Parks system with Yellowstone, and Lincoln even designated a tract of land comparable to a National Monument today.

Andy G. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. The result was the book American Individualism. TR has always been a good face of conservation, and one well known. And while I never found that one perfect biography of Hoover I hoped for, the four I read convinced me he was far more talented and interesting than I imagined. American individualism,.

He was very informative in walking through the details of his life.

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In brief, he was in the progressive tradition no hidebound conservative, he. Cheers, R Reply. Jay N. The Hoover-Wilson wartime correspondence, September 24, , to November 11, But I grew increasingly optimistic about my encounter with this time-worn president as I began to observe his life through the biographies of two of his predecessors: Harding and Coolidge.