Herbert Hoover in the White House

• Author : Charles Rappleye
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 23 May 2017

Describes the uphill battle faced by the thirty-first president, who served his single term during the Great Depression, portraying the man as bright, well-meaning, and energetic but ultimately lacking in the tools of leadership. --Publisher.

• Author : Herbert Hoover
• Publisher : Read Books Ltd
• Release : 24 June 2015

This volume contains a collection of memoirs by Herbert Hoover, concentrating on the Great Depression, its origins, and its effects. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 – 1964) was an American businessman, engineer and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 and 1933.Contents include: “The Origins of The Great Depression”, “We Attempt to Stop the Orgy of Speculation”, “Our Weak American Banking System”, “Federal Government Responsibilities and Functions in Economic Crises”, “Remedial Measures”, “A Summary of the Evolution of the

• Author : G. Jeansonne
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 03 April 2012

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 : Max J. Skidmore
• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• Release : 27 January 2015

What exactly has Bill Clinton been doing since he left office? What can he expect to accomplish? What have his predecessors in his position done? Many presidents have had enormous impacts on the course of history after their terms ended, but not until After the White House by Max J. Skidmore has their role been examined. Thirty-two completed their terms. Four became presidential candidates again (one was even elected), two served in Congress, one abandoned his country to accept election

• Author : Edgar Eugene Robinson,Vaughn Davis Bornet
• Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
• Release : 25 July 1975

ISBN 0817914919 LCCN 7518666.

• Author : Lee Nash
• Publisher : Hoover Inst Press
• Release : 25 July 1987

"This volume is a collection of essays from the biennial Herbert Hoover symposia begun at George Fox College, Newberg, Oregon, in 1977. That year marked the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Academic Building on the campus, commemorating Hoover's attendance at Friends Pacific Academy, the original school on the site, which was founded by Hoover's uncle, Dr. Henry John Minthorn, in 1885. Every two years since 1977 scholars have met to share and evaluate their continuing research on the life and times of Herbert

• Author : Katherine House
• Publisher : Chicago Review Press
• Release : 01 February 2014

The White House for Kids provides an intriguing, in-depth history of the White House and its role as a home, an office, and a powerful symbol of the United States, making it a unique resource for kids visiting Washington D.C. with their family or class and those studying American history, presidential history, and American government. Through numerous primary sources and kid-friendly anecdotes, the history of the building is detailed including the many renovations and redecorations made over the years,

• Author : Hoover Presidential Library Association,Hoover Presidential Lib
• Publisher : Praeger
• Release : 25 July 1998

A selection of historical materials documenting the early collaboration and later rivalry of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, this volume chronicles the time from their work together during the Wilson administration to Roosevelt's death in 1945.

• Author : George H. Nash
• Publisher : Hoover Press
• Release : 01 September 2013

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

• Author : Kenneth Whyte
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 10 October 2017

"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

• Author : BreAnn Rumsch
• Publisher : ABDO
• Release : 01 January 2009

The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Herbert Hoover, beginning with his childhood in West Branch, Iowa, and Newberg, Oregon. Information about Hoover's education at Stanford University and his early career as an engineer, including being caught in the Boxer Rebellion, is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as

• Author : Timothy Walch
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 25 July 2021

This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch brings together contributions from leading scholars who have conducted extensive research into the lives of this extraordinary couple, placing them in a national and international context.

• Author : William E. Leuchtenburg
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 06 January 2009

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

• Author : Lori Cox Han
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 30 June 2018

This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents—even beloved ones—throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture. • Investigates a unique form of expressions of hatred toward American presidents, focusing on the personal rather than the political • Covers every president from Washington to Trump • Includes coverage of personal attacks on First Families • Details how presidents and allies responded to these attacks

• Author : David Pietrusza
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 21 April 2009

The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity -- the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 -- and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the