Herbert Hoover, a life, Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen
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Herbert Hoover, a life, Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen
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non fiction
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Herbert Hoover
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935193212
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Glen Jeansonne, with David Luhrssen
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a life
Summary
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. --, adapted from dust jacket
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A Quaker orphan on the frontier -- Cardinal red -- The great engineer -- The great humanitarian -- Samaritan to a continent -- Secretary of commerce, locomotive of the economy -- Into the White House -- Getting a grip on the presidency -- Holding a finger in the dike -- Fighting the Depression -- Democracy is a harsh employer -- Challenging the New Deal -- Politics and diplomacy before the second great war -- The maelstrom of war -- The Truman years -- The Republicans return to power -- Tempest and triumph
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