The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression 1929-1941 - Softcover

Hoover, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684220335 ISBN 13: 9781684220335

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2016

Synopsis

2016 Reprint of 1952 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Hoover’s “Memoirs” constitute his political statement.  This third volume in the series, forthright and devastatingly critical of the New Deal, is the culmination of that statement.  Its analysis of the Great Depression—the beginnings during the Hoover Administration and the eight frantic years of the New Deal power from 1932-1940—provides enlightening perspectives for the national problems that followed and persist up to today.  In nearly five hundred pages of political dynamite, Hoover argues that the Great Depression was largely the responsibility of the Federal Reserve, which acted against his protest; that the bank panic of 1933 was the most unnecessary panic in history; that Roosevelt’s actions as President-elect tended to precipitate that panic and his refusal to cooperate had an adverse effect upon critical foreign problems.  A different perspective on the Great Depression from one of the most important political actor of the events. 

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About the Author:

Herbert Hoover: self-made millionaire, dedicated philanthropist, and pioneering humanitarian, he had finished the war as Wilson's appointed head of the American Food Administration. There was just one problem--he couldn't decide whether to run as a Democrat or a Republican.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1684220335
• ISBN 13: 9781684220335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536