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Few presidents have been subjected to such a wide range of interpretation as has Herbert Hoover, from hero to villain, from genius to naïf. Fausold meets the daunting challenge of assessing the Hoover presidency by focusing on the to most basic questions: first, whether the Hoover presidency advanced the country toward the goals outlined in his Inaugural Address - justice, ordered liberty, equality of opportunity, individual initiative, freedom of...
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Herbert Hoover was a politician and a humanitarian whose legacy has been largely defined by the Great Depression. When he was elected president in a landslide victory in 1928, Hoover had never before held public office. Even so, his humanitarian work and career as a mining engineer, businessman and U.S. Secretary of Commerce carried him to a win.When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, Hoover's agenda was derailed by the worsening economic...
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This comprehensive biography of the nation's thirty-first President covers his early years in Iowa and Oregon, his education at Stanford, his success as a mining engineer, his promotion of American economic development as Secretary of Commerce, and his eventual election as President of the United States. -- Dust jacket.
14) From new era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the economists, and American economic policy, 1921-1933
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In popular imagery, Herbert Hoover is often stereotyped as a 'do-nothing' president who offered only nineteenth-century slogans for the greatest economic catastrophe in twentieth-century American history. Nothing could be further from the truth. This study examines the properties of an innovative approach to economic growth and stability formulated by Hoover and his associates during his years as secretary of commerce (1921-9) and inspects his deployment...
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"Kendrick Clements illuminates the influence of Hoover's broadly conceived ideas about conservation on almost every economic policy of the Republican era, from expansion of the National Park system to efforts to eliminate radical swings of the business cycle."
"To some extent Hoover's policies anticipated directions that would be pursued by modern environmentalists. The National Conference on Outdoor Recreation brought together wilderness advocates...
20) The great famine
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When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
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