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Hoover the Fishing President - Portrait of the Private Man and His Adventurous Life Outdoors (Paperback)
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Hoover the Fishing President - Portrait of the Private Man and His Adventurous Life Outdoors (Paperback)
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An intensely private and shy man, Hoover the person was largely
unknown to the American public. In this extensively researched
biography devoted to the angling side of Hoover, author Hal Elliott
Wert examines the often overlooked life of our thirty-first
president. In a presidency plagued by the Depression, in a time
when the country was poised between the agrarian society of the
past and the advent of a modern professional class, Herbert Hoover
faced numerous challenges. A thinker and a doer who shaped the way
we live today, Hoover found relief from the stresses of his
professional life in his pastime, fishing. Herbert Hoover fished
near his hometown of West Branch, Iowa, as a boy and then moved to
Oregon, where he fished the Rogue, Willamette, McKenzie, and
Columbia rivers. As a young man, he attended Stanford and fished
and camped throughout the West during breaks. He fished and spent
time in the outdoors throughout his life and especially in his
years as president. He founded Cave Man Camp at Bohemian Grove
north of San Francisco, a yearly getaway for powerful Republicans,
and Camp Rapidan in Virginia while he was in the White House. In
addition to freshwater fishing, Hoover enjoyed fishing the salt. On
trips to Florida later in his life, he stalked bonefish and fished
for permit and the larger species, such as sailfish.
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