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7 de feb. de 2016 · * Eugene Lyons’s 1947 “Herbert Hoover: A Biography” was published nearly two decades before Hoover’s death, but it was updated and republished shortly after Hoover died in 1964. This is the longest of my four Hoover biographies (with 442 pages of text) and it proves lively, dramatic and quite sympathetic toward its subject.
10 de oct. de 2017 · "An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." — The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century— a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man ...
Herbert Hoover: Life in Brief. Upon accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1928, Herbert Hoover predicted that "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." Hoover won the presidency that year, but his time in office belied ...
Kindle $14.99. Rate this book. The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, his battle against the Great Depression, and their own history. An impoverished orphan who built a ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) The first president from west of the Mississippi, Herbert Clark Hoover was born in the Quaker community of West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. His father Jesse, a blacksmith, died when Herbert was six. When his mother Huldah, a minister in the Society of Friends, died four years later, young Herbert was ...
15 de ago. de 2023 · Hoover was the last president whose term ended on March 3. Thereafter all presidential terms began and ended on January 20. Hoover's presidency began amidst grand optimism as the prosperity of the ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Herbert Clark Hoover was born August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa , a small Quaker settlement near Iowa City. His father, Jesse Hoover, was a village blacksmith and merchant. Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover, his mother, was an active lay minister in the Society of Friends, which the Quakers had come to be called.
