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Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times / Kenneth Whyte.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307597960 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvii, 728 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi Book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "A pretty stiff time" -- "A whole jug full of experience" -- "I am the Devil" -- "The adventures of Hu-hua and Hoo Loo" -- "The late jar rather smashed my nerves" -- What lies beyond wealth -- "Hard to state without becoming hysterical" -- A pirate state organized for benevolence -- Make way for the Almoner of starving Belgium -- A hero in the house of truth -- Inconsolable in the hall of mirrors -- An engineer at the opera -- Meddling with God's economy -- Hoover v. a botched civilization -- Scandal, embarrassment, and the little feller -- Sleepless in good times -- "The wonder boy" -- "Giving genius its chance" -- "He didn't know where the votes came from" -- Nothing to fear but fear itself -- Just when we thought it was over -- "It seemed like the end of the world" -- The president in his fighting clothes -- "A human creature desperately hurt and pained" -- Through the abyss in a Buick -- Father of the new conservatism -- Reborn in a darker world -- "I admire a lot in Hoover's career". |
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| Subject: | Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. Presidents > United States > Biography. United States > Politics and government > 1919-1933. United States > Politics and government > 1929-1933. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 973.916092 Hoove-W | 31681010072981 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the 31st president traces his difficult childhood and meteoric business career through his significant contributions during World War I and the Great Depression, sharing insights into his less-recognized economic and political achievements. - Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the thirty-first U.S. president traces his difficult childhood and meteoric business career through his significant contributions during World War I and the Great Depression, sharing insights into his less-recognized economic and political achievements. - Random House, Inc.
"An exemplary biographyâexhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCulloughâs Truman, a high compliment indeed." âThe Wall Street Journal
The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth centuryâa 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 great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression.
Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly recreates Hooverâs rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of a ruthless Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy's "New Frontier." Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hooverâs complexities and contradictionsâhis modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosityâas well as his profound political legacy.
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by any American of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hooverâs momentous life and volatile times.
