Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency

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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 draws on rare and intimate sources-memoirs and diaries and thousands of...

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Presidents United States Biography

United States Politics and government 1929-1933

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ISBN:

9781451648676
1451648677

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Description:

xx, 554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-525) and index

Contents:

Part I. The rise and fall of Herbert Hoover
He did not choose
A political diptych
Flashpoints, and a landslide
"Hoover the silent"
Bright with hope
The Wall Street Frankenstein
The special session
The crash
The president's hair shirts
"The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover"
Part II. War on a thousand fronts
Challenging facts
Friction at the Fed
The ground gives way
Playing politics with human misery
The ghost of Grover Cleveland
Credit crunch
The Gibraltar of world stability
Reconstruction
Part III. The bitter end
Roosevelt rising
The conflicted candidate
Evil magic
President reject
Interregnum
The sound of crashing banks

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2309011

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