The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917

by George H. Nash

Book Overview

At the outbreak of World War I, Hoover was a wealthy mining engineer living in London. In a short time, he became the founder and brilliant director of an unprecedented international relief organization, which provided desperately needed food to more than 9,000,000 Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. By 1919, when his Commission for Relief in Belgium closed its operations it had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393025500
• ISBN13: 9780393025507
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"