Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover 1874 1944 written by Ray Lyman Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover 1874 1944 a Memorial Tribute Stanford Memorial Church January 14 1944 written by Ray Lyman Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover written by Dale C. Mayer and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever biography of Herbert Hoover's First Lady.
Download or read book Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Ancestry written by Ronald Vern Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains lineage charts showing the ancestries of the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-19640, and his wife Lou Henry (1875-1944). Includes a chronology of events in the history of the United States of America beginning with the birth of Christopher Columbus in 1451 to the taking of the 20th census of the U.S.A. in 1980.
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover written by Nancy Beck Young and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her “old-fashioned wifehood,” she very much foreshadowed the “new woman” of the era. Nancy Beck Young presents the first thoroughly documented study of Lou Henry Hoover’s White House years, 1929–1933, showing that, far from a passive prelude to Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a true innovator. Young draws on the extensive collection of Lou Hoover’s personal papers to show that she was not only an important First Lady but also a key transitional figure between nineteenth- and twentieth-century views on womanhood. Lou Hoover was a multifaceted woman: a college graduate, a lover of the outdoors, a supporter of Girl Scouting, and a person engaged in social activism who endorsed political involvement for women and created a program to fight the Depression. Young traces Hoover’s many philanthropic efforts both before and during the Hoover presidency—contrasting them with those of her husband—and places her public activities in the larger context of contemporary women’s activism. And she shows that, unlike her predecessors, Hoover did more than entertain: she revolutionized the office of First Lady. Yet as Young reveals, Hoover was constrained as First Lady by her inability to achieve the same results that she had previously accomplished in her very public career for the volunteer community. As diligently as she worked to combat the hardship of the Depression for average Americans by mobilizing private relief efforts, her efforts ultimately had little effect. Although her celebrity has paled in the shadow of her husband’s negative association with the Great Depression, Lou Hoover’s story reveals a dynamic woman who used her activism to refashion the office of First Lady into a modern institution reflecting changes in the ways American women lived their lives. Young’s study of Hoover’s White House years shows that her legacy of innovation made a lasting mark on the office and those who followed.
Download or read book American First Ladies written by Lewis L. Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents thirty-nine interpretive biographical essays on all first ladies, from Martha Washington to America's newest First Lady, Laura Bush. This new edition contains updated material on all the living First Ladies and updated bibliographies for each entry, as well as a portrait of the newest First Lady.
Download or read book A Woman of Adventure written by Annette Dunlap and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annette B. Dunlap takes a fresh look at Lou Henry Hoover, the First Lady who preceded Eleanor Roosevelt, from Hoover’s relief efforts during World War I to her work developing organizations that promoted self-sufficiency among young girls and women.
Download or read book Ghost Girl written by Delia Ray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are the Depression years, and Mama, who has been grieving ever since the accidental death of her seven-year-old son, wants April to stay home and do the chores around their dilapidated farm. With her grandmother's intercession, April is grudgingly allowed to go. The kind teacher encourages her apt pupil, who finds a new world opening up to her. But at home, April cannot repair the relationship with her mother, and worse, her mother overhears the dark secret April confesses to her teacher regarding the true cause of her brother's death, for which April feels responsible. The author has used her own experience growing up in a rural area of northern Virginia to create the vivid characters and authentic dialogue and background detail that characterize this finely honed debut novel. She has based the one-room schoolhouse on papers in the Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, which include letters between the White House and the young teacher who taught at the school.
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover Gallant First Lady written by Helen Brenton Pryor and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the woman who, in addition to serving for four years as First Lady in the White House, accompanied her husband all over the world, nursed the wounded on the battlefront of China's Boxer Rebellion, participated in many World War I relief movements, and served as President of the Girl Scouts of America.
Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by Eugene Lyons and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1964 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 -1964) was an American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was born in West Branch, Iowa, son of .Jesse Hoover and Hulda Randall Minthorn. He married Lou Henry (1874-1944) in 1899 and they had two sons.
Download or read book Uncommon Americans written by Timothy Walch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch, Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, brings together contributions from leading scholars who have conducted extensive research into the lives of this extraordinary couple, placing them in a national and international context. He hopes to entice more historians to delve into the intricacies of their lives.
Download or read book Presidential Anecdotes written by Paul F. Boller and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised edition of Presidential Anecdotes recounts some of the most striking stories about America's 42 chief executives, from Washington to Clinton, shedding light on the presidents as human beings and on the culture that produced them.
Download or read book Uncommon Americans written by Timothy Walch and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch, Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, brings together contributions from leading scholars who have conducted extensive research into the lives of this extraordinary couple, placing them in a national and international context. He hopes to entice more historians to delve into the intricacies of their lives.
Download or read book An Independent Woman written by Anne B. Allen and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-07-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, she organized assistance for American travelers stranded in Europe, campaigned on behalf of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, and set up a boarding house in Washington D.C. for young women working in war-related agencies.".
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover written by Nancy A. Colbert and published by First Biographies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the wife of President Herbert Hoover, following her life from birth to death.
Download or read book An Uncommon Man written by Richard Norton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
