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Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times  Cover Image Book Book

Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times / Kenneth Whyte.

Whyte, Kenneth, (author.).

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".
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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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