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Book The New Day

Download or read book The New Day written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert Hoover
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 9781494055899
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The New Day written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Book American Individualism

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.

Book The Hoover Presidency

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  • Author : Martin L. Fausold
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1974-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780873952804
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Hoover Presidency written by Martin L. Fausold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These persuasive essays, which are the product of a Conversation in the Discipline held at State University of New York at Geneseo in 1973, offer a definitive reevaluation of the Hoover era in the centennial year of his birth.

Book Years of adventure  1874 1920

Download or read book Years of adventure 1874 1920 written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Herbert Hoover

Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover written by G. Jeansonne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.

Book Anxious Decades  America in Prosperity and Depression  1920 1941

Download or read book Anxious Decades America in Prosperity and Depression 1920 1941 written by Michael E. Parrish and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-04-17 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview."—Publishers Weekly In the convulsive years between 1920 and 941, Americans were first dazzled by unprecedented economic prosperity and then beset by the worst depression in their history. It was the era of Model T's, rising incomes, scientific management, electricity, talking movies, and advertising techniques that sold a seemingly endless stream of goods. But is was also a time of grave social conflict and human suffering. The Crash forced Hoover, and then Roosevelt and the nation, to reexamine old solutions and address pressing questions of recovery and reform, economic growth and social justice. The world beyond America changed also in these years, making the country rethink its relation to events in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The illusion of superiority slowly died in the 1930s, sustaining a fatal blow in December 1941 at Pearl Harbor.

Book Herbert Hoover in the White House

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).

Book Oh Yeah

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  • Author : Edward Angly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780870340888
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Oh Yeah written by Edward Angly and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Herbert Hoover Reassessed

Download or read book Herbert Hoover Reassessed written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Herbert Hoover

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  • Author : Joan Hoff Wilson
  • Publisher : Waveland Press
  • Release : 1992-11-12
  • ISBN : 1478631163
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Herbert Hoover written by Joan Hoff Wilson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1992-11-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America’s least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye. Herbert Hoover’s career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States: humble beginnings surmounted by hard work and tremendous ambition, wealth, public service and, eventually, the presidency. From his Quaker youth he acquired morals and values that he would preserve throughout his entire life. These values ultimately created an unbridgeable gulf between him and U.S. citizens as he confronted the Great Depression soon after taking office. There would always be little comprehension between the president and the people who looked to him for leadership. He died unpopular and isolated, disowned by his own party, embittered by the lack of understanding, and convinced that the burden of blame for the depression had been thrust on him unfairly. This volume seeks to shed light not only on the man and his career, but also on the evolving nation that rejected him

Book Herbert Hoover in the White House

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 2017-05-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the uphill battle faced by the thirty-first president, who served his single term during the Great Depression, portraying the man as bright, well-meaning, and energetic but ultimately lacking in the tools of leadership. --Publisher.

Book Live from the Campaign Trail

Download or read book Live from the Campaign Trail written by Michael A. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the country wades into the hotly contested 2008 presidential election season, we look to the candidates' public pronouncements to gain an understanding of their platforms and to get a sense of the political direction our country might take over the course of the next four years. Presidential campaign oratory has always inspired and incited voters. In this collection of 27 pivotal campaign speeches, Michael Cohen helps bring to life the speeches that defined and dramatized American politics over the last century. From FDR's pledge for a "New Deal" to Nixon's legendary "Checkers" speech, from Dan Quayle's attack on Murphy Brown to select speeches from this year's presidential race, the "stump" speech has been the primary vehicle for candidates to share their political ambitions and ideals with the American people. With supporting essays that set the scene and provide the appropriate context for understanding what was said, how it was said, and why, Live from the Campaign Trail illustrates how campaign speeches have fundamentally shaped the way we think about American politics.

Book Herbert Hoover and the Commodification of Middle Class America

Download or read book Herbert Hoover and the Commodification of Middle Class America written by Edward Gale Agran and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Hoover rose from a rudimentary background to establish himself as a self-made millionaire and leading progressive reformer. Until the disaster that hit the nation in 1929, Hoover was known globally as the “Great Humanitarian” who had saved the lives of scores of millions of Europeans and Asians during and following WWI. As Secretary of Commerce through the twenties, the “Great Engineer” constructed, tooled, and fine-tuned the most powerful economy in the world. Hoover was celebrated as a representative product of America’s rise to global domination and a formidable voice for progressivism who could finish the job in the White House. The Depression was Hoover’s undoing, but historians recognize they must take account of his considerable contributions to the creation of “twentieth-century America.” As we learn more of that America, Hoover makes “more sense.” With due consideration of Hoover’s accomplishments, one can further understand the construction of the American industrial and corporate economy, progressivism and the New Deal, and political posturing throughout the century. Equally significant, one can comprehend twentieth-century “cash-box” culture and Hoover’s formidable contributions as a public servant to the commodification of American life. He endeavored to establish that all could fulfill a secure, middle-class life—in essence, achieve the “American Dream.” This concept in part was created by Hoover, who also was considered one of the nation’s public-relations geniuses. The political establishment continues to build upon the social and cultural foundation he laid. That foundation, while under stress, remains fundamentally sound as the nation enters the twenty-first century. The criticisms rained down upon American materialism echo dangers Hoover warned against. He subscribed to the maxim that a genuinely good society is not one premised upon material values; it is established upon a widely distributed sense of well-being grounded in service and compassion. Hoover never lost sight of the imperative of selflessness for the good of others, the nation, and oneself within an individualistically driven society rich in comforts and security. He sedulously worked to create a middle-class identity which spoke to material well-being and fundamental decency. A true believer, Herbert Clark Hoover energetically embraced the “American Promise.”

Book President Herbert Hoover

Download or read book President Herbert Hoover written by Donald W. Whisenhunt and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Clark Hoover (10 August 1874-20 October 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, the peoples icon, and administrator. He showed the Efficiency Movement component of the Progressive Era, arguing there were other solutions to all social and economic problems - a position that was challenged by the Great Depression that began while he was President. Hoover had a distinguished public service career before becoming president at a time of great religious and social turmoil. He had the misfortune to arrive at the presidency at the same time as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the outset of the Great Depression and his legacy to this day carries that stigma. He nevertheless is generally ranked in the middle of the pack of effective presidents.

Book American Business History

Download or read book American Business History written by Walter A. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction looks at the rise of the American economy from its colonial and frontier beginnings. What made the United States an attractive testing ground for entrepreneurs? How did the United States come to have the largest business enterprises in the world by the early twentieth century? Why did business organizations gain a central place in American society?

Book The Elusive Quest

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  • Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-10
  • ISBN : 1469610159
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Elusive Quest written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist studies by integrating the diverse aspects of foreign policy and elucidates many new aspects of the foreign policymaking process in the postwar period. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.