History Brief: Herbert Hoover

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  • Herbert Hoover: The American Presidents Series: The 31st President, 1929-1933

    • ASIN: B0055DLBXW
    • Manufacturer: Times Books

  • Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

    • ASIN: 1451648677
    • ISBN: 9781451648676
    • Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover’s presidency to date.” —Publishers Weekly Rappleye’s surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual Hoover, engaged and active but loathe to experiment and conscious o... [Read More]

  • Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

    • ASIN: 0307597962
    • ISBN: 0307597962
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    "An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will foreve... [Read More]

  • Did President Herbert Hoover Really Cause the Great Depression? Biography of Presidents | Children's Biography Books

    • ASIN: B0768JP41C
    • Manufacturer: Baby Professor

    The Great Depression was truly depressing. Everyone was struggling to make ends meet. The stock market crashed and took the economy with it. Jobs were lost and families were greatly affected. But who is to blame for it? Was it really President Hoover? Let’s explore the facts and then let’s try to create our conclusions. Begin with this book tod... [Read More]

  • The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 1933-1964

    • ASIN: 0230103103
    • ISBN: 0230103103
    • Brand: Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
    • Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

    In this monumental contribution to Hoover scholarship, eminent historian Gary Dean Best chronicles the post-presidential decades of this important historical figure, and the achievements of a distinguished career that extended far beyond Herbert Hoover's presidency.

  • The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917-1918

    • ASIN: 0393038416
    • ISBN: 0393038416
    • Brand: W.W. Norton & Co
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    The third volume in what the National Review has called a "magisterial work of scholarship on one of our least-known presidents, and an important era in American history."National Review has called a "magisterial work of scholarship on one of our least-known presidents, and an important era in American history." The entry of the United States into ... [Read More]

  • Richard Nixon: The Life

    • ASIN: B01KUDJ5PW
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.   At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build... [Read More]

  • The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

    • ASIN: 1439127727
    • ISBN: 1439127727
    • Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated plac... [Read More]

  • Herbert Hoover: A Life

    • ASIN: 1101991003
    • ISBN: 9781101991008
    • Brand: New American Library
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    “At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full… [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Freedom from FearPrizewinning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood presi... [Read More]

  • The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge (American Presidency (Univ of Kansas Hardcover))

    • ASIN: 0700608923
    • ISBN: 0700608923
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    Perhaps no American president has seemed less suited to his office or his times than Calvin Coolidge. The taciturn New Englander became a vice presidential candidate by chance, then with the death of Warren G. Harding was thrust into the White House to preside dourly over the Roaring Twenties.Robert Ferrell, one of America's most distinguished hist... [Read More]

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