Author: Herbert Hoover
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1886

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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author: Charles Rappleye
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451648693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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“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).

Author: William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429933496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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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.

Author: George H. Nash
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817912363
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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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.

Author: United States Government Printing Office
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160588396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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Spine title reads: Public Papers of the Presidents, Herbert Hoover, 1930. Contains the public messages and statements of President Hoover that were issued by the White House during the period January 1-December 31, 1930. Also includes appendices and an index. Item 574-A. Public Papers of the Presidents collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/public-papers-presidents

Author: Hoover, Herbert
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
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Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover)
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Herbert Hoover
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Individualism
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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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.