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Herbert Hoover - President of the United States (Paperback)
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An illuminating appraisal of the thirty-first president of the
United States
This detailed account of Herbert Hoover's presidency reveals him as
a staunch defender of constitutional government and one of our
least understood presidents. Battling political partisanship while
trying to place the needs of the nation as a whole over those of
state and localities, Hoover found his program for America's entry
into the new scientific era overwhelmed by profound changes in the
social and economic structure of a nation entering a new age.
From the outset of his presidency, Hoover faced opposition for his
programs from within his own party. Criticized for not
understanding "politics," it was instead traditional party
practices that stymied much of what he tried to accomplish.
Personally blamed for the financial disaster of 1929 that ushered
in the Great Depression, he was defeated in the election of 1932
because, as some publications of the time observed, the country did
not vote for Roosevelt, it voted against Hoover.
Despite opposition at every turn from both the opposing party and
the progressive faction among his fellow Republicans, Hoover in
retrospect emerges, in the words of the authors, as "a determined
spokesman for the traditional American virtues, hopes, and ideals
of individual opportunity, personal freedom, and love of country."
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