The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of emergencies, 1917-1918
Author : George H. Nash
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : George H. Nash
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9780393038415
his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.
Author : G. Jeansonne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1137111895
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.
Author : K. Clements
Publisher : Springer
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0230107907
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.
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Presidents
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Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher : Garden City, Doubleday
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Individualism
ISBN :
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.
Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393025507
his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.
Author : Kenneth Whyte
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030774387X
"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.
Author : Mary Elisabeth Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0192551841
At the outbreak of the First World War, Great Britain quickly took steps to initiate a naval blockade against Germany. In addition to military goods and other contraband, foodstuffs and fertilizer were also added to the list of forbidden exports to Germany. As the grip of the Blockade strengthened, Germans complained that civilians-particularly women and children-were going hungry because of it. The impact of the blockade on non-combatants was especially fraught during the eight month period of the Armistice when the blockade remained in force. Even though fighting had stopped, German civilians wondered how they would go through another winter of hunger. The issue became internationalised as civic leaders across the country wrote books, pamphlets, and articles about their distress, and begged for someone to step in and relieve German women and children with food aid. Their pleas were answered with an outpouring of generosity from across the world. Some have argued, then and since, that these outcries were based on gross exaggerations based more on political need rather than actual want. This book examines what the actual nutritional statuses of women and children in Germany were during and following the War. Mary Cox uses detailed height and weight data for over 600,000 German children to show the true measure of overall deprivation, and to gauge infant recovery.
Author : Steven F. Hayward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1621576639
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!