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Herbert Hoover

Foreword

Child of the American West

Quaker Boyhood

Student at Stanford

Australian Gold

Adventure in China

The Great Engineer

Hoover Chooses Public Service

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The Belgian Relief

Food for Victory

Crusade against Chaos

Salvaging a Continent

Back Home from Europe

An Old-style Liberal

Consulting Engineer to the Nation

1928: Nomination & Campaign

No Politician

Paradox of Personality

Boom into Bust

Constructive Labors

The Big Smear

The Republican New Deal

Grappling with Calamity

In the Valley of Shadows

Direct Relief

1932: Hoover Is Defeated

Interrugnum—& Panic

Scapegoat for Cataclysm

Critique of the New Deal

Another World War

The Tide of Slander Recedes

Fighting Another World Famine

Reform of Government Operations

The Time of Vindication

The Elder Statesman

The Ninth Decade

Bibliography

Audience
adult
Length
long · 456 pages

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