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

by Glen Jeansonne

Book Overview

Provocative, brilliantly written, and exhaustively researched, this book is the first definitive study of the presidency of one of America's most maligned and poorly understood Chief Executives. Born in a Quaker hamlet in Iowa and orphaned at nine, Herbert Hoover had already risen to wealth and global fame as an international mining engineer, the savior of Belgium during the Great War, Woodrow Wilson's Food Administrator, and perhaps the greatest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137346736
• ISBN13: 9781137346735
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 539 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"