Herbert Hoover
(2009)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/HOOVER,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Times Books, 2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 186 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805069587, 0805069585
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The great engineer -- The great humanitarian -- Food czar -- Commerce -- The road to the White House -- False dawn -- Crash -- Global disorder -- Defeat -- The long good-bye
Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression