Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Vol. for 1938-40 has title: Further addresses upon the American road.Vol. 4. has imprint, New York : D. Van Nostrand.Includes indexes. [v.1.] 1933-1938 -- [v.2.] 1938-1940 -- [v.3.] 1940-1941 -- [v.4.] World War II, 1941-1945.

Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Vol. for 1938-40 has title: Further addresses upon the American road.Vol. 4. has imprint, New York : D. Van Nostrand.Includes indexes. [v.1.] 1933-1938 -- [v.2.] 1938-1940 -- [v.3.] 1940-1941 -- [v.4.] World War II, 1941-1945.

Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Vol. for 1938-40 has title: Further addresses upon the American road.Vol. 4. has imprint, New York : D. Van Nostrand.Includes indexes. [v.1.] 1933-1938 -- [v.2.] 1938-1940 -- [v.3.] 1940-1941 -- [v.4.] World War II, 1941-1945.

Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Vol. for 1938-40 has title: Further addresses upon the American road.Vol. 4. has imprint, New York : D. Van Nostrand.Includes indexes. [v.1.] 1933-1938 -- [v.2.] 1938-1940 -- [v.3.] 1940-1941 -- [v.4.] World War II, 1941-1945.

Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Herbert Hoover
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Category : Lectures and lecturing
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher: New York : Putnam
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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"[This book] is the story of what happened in the United States between Pearl Harbor and V-J Day. For those ... who were in this country then, the book will be a trip down memory lane. For others, it will be pure history. For all, it will be a thorough re-creation of the events, sometimes ludicrous and sometimes tragic, and personalities that left their mark upon America during a period of transition and upheaval. V-girls and V-mail, Willow Run and Henry Kaiser, dollar-a-year men and C stickers, Sidney Hillman and Rosie the Riveter, Ernie Pyle and The Voice of the Turtle, Veronica Lake and 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,' blackouts and the internment of the Japanese. These are but a few of the hundreds of phenomena of the American home front during World War II that Richard Lingeman has recaptured. Six years in the research and writing, the book exhibits as sharp an eye for small, revelatory details--civil defense measures in Wyoming, milk shortages in Texas, and one-armed outfielders--as for large and crucial subjects such as the response of industry to war and shifting population patterns that changed the face of the nation. While there is no doubt that [this book] is sheer reading pleasure (just look at the index for all you never knew or have forgotten to remember), there is equally little doubt that it is filled with insights and information that record permanent alterations in the American way of life. The war brought new, if still limited, opportunities to both the Negro and to women, and it is perhaps significant that in 1945 the two groups were thought to be worth almost exactly the same on the labor market. And if the war definitively ended the Depression, it was at the price of the military-industrial complex with which we live today. Thus the book simultaneously reveals the past and does much to explain the present. Ultimately, though, what emerges most clearly is a portrait of everyday life in America in a time of unprecedented national emergency. Predictably enough, there are heroes and villains, excesses and deprivations, valor and foolishness. Seldom has an era been so carefully and vividly brought back to life, and it is all here in a book that is destined to take its place beside Only Yesterday and The Aspirin Age as a classic of significant popular history."--Dust jacket.

Author: George H. Nash
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
ISBN: 0817916768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting “crusade against collectivism” in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman eras, and its window on Hoover's private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites readers to reflect on the factors that made his extraordinarily fruitful postpresidential years possible. The pages of this memoir recount the story of Hoover's later life, his abiding political philosophy, and his vision of the nation that gave him the opportunity for service. This is, in short, a remarkable saga told in the former president's own words and in his own way that will appeal as much to professional historians and political scientists as it will lay readers interested in history.