The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928–1933 - Hardcover

Jeansonne, G.

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9780230103092: The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928–1933
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 023010309X ISBN 13: 9780230103092
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

GLEN JEANSONNE Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His books include A Time of Paradox: American Since 1890; Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression; and Women of the Far Right: The Mothers Movement and World War II, among others. His second book, Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate, won the Gustavus Myer Award, the Wisconsin Writer's Award, and was nominated for the Pulitizer Prize in Biography. Jeansonne has also published biographies of Barack Obama , Elvis Presley and Leander H. Perez, and more than sixty academic and popular articles.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
023010309X
ISBN 13 
9780230103092
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
560
Rating
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