Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by William E. Leuchtenburg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover—an engineer by training—exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. As president, however, Hoover was sorely tested by America's first crisis of the twentieth century: the Great Depression. Renowned New Deal historian William E. Leuchtenburg demonstrates how Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government and his belief that volunteerism would solve all social ills. As Leuchtenburg shows, Hoover's attempts to enlist the aid of private- sector leaders did little to mitigate the Depression, and he was routed from office by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. From his retirement at Stanford University, Hoover remained a vocal critic of the New Deal and big government until the end of his long life. Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of this lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history.

Download or read book The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover written by Herbert Hoover and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1951 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume by President Hoover is organized as follows: Introduction The Origins of the Depression 1. The Origins of the Great Depression 2. We Attempt to Stop the Orgy of Speculation 3. Our Weak American Banking System 4. Federal Government Responsibilities and Functions in Economic Crises Remedial Measures 5. A Summary of the Evolution of the Depression 6. First Phase of the Depression – October, 1929, to April, 1931 7. Second Phase of the Depression-April to August, 1931 8. Third Phase of the Depression—August to November, 1931 9. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 10. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 11. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 12. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 13. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 14. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 15. Fourth Phase of the Depression-November, 1931, to July, 1932 (Cont’d) 16. Action From the Adjournment of Congress in July Until the 17. Fifth Phase of the Depression-September, 1932, to March, 1933 18. Ominous Economic Signs The Presidential Election of 1932 19. The Background of the 1932 Campaign 20. The Campaign Debate 21. Charges of Responsibility for the Depression 22. The “Hoover Did Nothing” Issue 23. The Federal Expenses and Tax Issue 24. The Gold Standard and Managed Currency Issues 25. The Tariff Issue 26. Agricultural Issues 27. Labor, Relief, and Public Works Issues 28. The Prohibition Issue 29. Business Regulation Issues 30. Collectivism by “Planned Economy” 31. Home Again The Aftermath 32. The Aftermath 33. Building the Trojan Horse of Emergency 34. The Recognition of Russia and the World Economic Conference in 1933 35. Usurpation of Power 36. Collectivism Comes to the Currency—and Its Consequences 37. Fascism Comes to Agriculture 38. Fascism Comes to Business—With Dire Consequences 39. Fascism Comes to Labor—With Consequences 40. Introduction to Socialism Through Electrical Power 41. Direct Relief and Public Works 42. Collectivism by Thought Control and Smear 43. Some Good Actions 44. The Expenditures, Accounting and Statistics 45. The Consequences

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Proclamations and Executive Orders written by United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbert Hoover Proclamations March 4 1929 to March 4 1933 Executive orders no 5076 5549 written by United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Crusade Years 1933 1955 written by George H. Nash and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting “crusade against collectivism” in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman eras, and its window on Hoover's private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites readers to reflect on the factors that made his extraordinarily fruitful postpresidential years possible. The pages of this memoir recount the story of Hoover's later life, his abiding political philosophy, and his vision of the nation that gave him the opportunity for service. This is, in short, a remarkable saga told in the former president's own words and in his own way that will appeal as much to professional historians and political scientists as it will lay readers interested in history.

Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by Glen Jeansonne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Fear Prizewinning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood president, offering up a surprising new portrait of Herbert Hoover—dismissing previous assumptions and revealing a political Progressive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt, and the most resourceful American since Benjamin Franklin. Orphaned at an early age and raised with strict Quaker values, Hoover earned his way through Stanford University. His hardworking ethic drove him to a successful career as an engineer and multinational businessman. After the Great War, he led a humanitarian effort that fed millions of Europeans left destitute, arguably saving more lives than any man in history. As commerce secretary under President Coolidge, Hoover helped modernize and galvanize American industry, and orchestrated the rehabilitation of the Mississippi Valley after the Great Flood of 1927. As president, Herbert Hoover became the first chief executive to harness federal power to combat a crippling global recession. Though Hoover is often remembered as a “do-nothing” president, Jeansonne convincingly portrays a steadfast leader who challenged congress on an array of legislation that laid the groundwork for the New Deal. In addition, Hoover reformed America’s prisons, improved worker safety, and fought for better health and welfare for children. Unfairly attacked by Franklin D. Roosevelt and blamed for the Depression, Hoover was swept out of office in a landslide. Yet as FDR’s government grew into a bureaucratic behemoth, Hoover became the moral voice of the GOP and a champion of Republican principles—a legacy re-ignited by Ronald Reagan and which still endures today. A compelling and rich examination of his character, accomplishments and failings, this is the magnificent biography of Herbert Hoover we have long waited for. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Download or read book American Individualism written by Herbert Hoover and published by Garden City, Doubleday. This book was released on 1922 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hoover expounds and vigorously defends what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argues that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character.

Download or read book The Foreign Policies of Herbert Hoover written by William Starr Myers and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1979 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbert Hoover in the White House written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job. Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, unsympathetic, and even paralyzed by national events, Hoover faced an uphill battle in the face of the Great Depression. Many historians dismiss him as merely ineffective. But in Herbert Hoover in the White House, Charles Rappleye investigates memoirs and diaries and thousands of documents kept by members of his cabinet and close advisors to reveal a very different figure than the one often portrayed. This “gripping” (Christian Science Monitor) biography shows that the real Hoover lacked the tools of leadership. In public Hoover was shy and retiring, but in private Rappleye shows him to be a man of passion and sometimes of fury, a man who intrigued against his enemies while fulminating over plots against him. Rappleye describes him as more sophisticated and more active in economic policy than is often acknowledged. We see Hoover watching a sunny (and he thought ignorant) FDR on the horizon, experimenting with steps to relieve the Depression. The Hoover we see here—bright, well meaning, energetic—lacked the single critical element to succeed as president. He had a first-class mind and a second-class temperament. Herbert Hoover in the White House is an object lesson in the most, perhaps only, talent needed to be a successful president—the temperament of leadership. This “fair-handed, surprisingly sympathetic new appraisal of the much-vilified president who was faced with the nation's plunge into the Great Depression…fills an important niche in presidential scholarship” (Kirkus Reviews).

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