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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (edizione 2017)di Kenneth Whyte (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Read my review at http://gregshistoryblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/herbert-hoover.html 5737. Hoover An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, by Kenneth Whyte (read 27 Feb 2021) I have had a goal of reading a biography of every president and have largely accomplished that. In fact I have read two biographies of Hoover, the 31st president: David Bruner's on 6 March 2006, and Joan Hoff Wilson's as recently as16 June 2016. I found this biography by Whyte, a Canadian, published in 2017, very well researched and written and enjoyable reading until he got to the time of the Great Depression. Before that time the author told a balanced and really interesting account of Hoover's time from his birth in Iowa in 1874, his boyhood and his becoming a orphan, his attendance at Stanford, his business career (mostly outside the U.S.), his exemplary work during the first World War feeding Belgians, and his time as Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, his work re the 1927 Mississippi flood, and his nomination for President in 1928. But the author, when telling of the Depression which began in 1929 begins putting everything in the best possible light for Hoover and as I grew up in the Depression he is so pro-Hoover that I disliked what he had to say, since I know what my father and Democrats had to say about Hoover. My mother tells the story about how my father stayed up late on election night in 1932 exulting that Hoover was losing so decisively. And I know myself how wrong Hoover was about Hitler and about the U.S. course before Dec 7, 1941. So, this is a very good book till we get to 1929 in Hoover's life. Till that time I was going to give the book five stars but I cannot give such in view of how the book handles Hoover's time from 1929 to 1953. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable and least understood Americans of the twentieth century--a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression. Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly re-creates Hoover's rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy's 'New Frontier.' Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hoover's complexities and contradictions--his modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosity--as well as his profound political legacy. [This] is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by many Americans of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hoover's momentous life and volatile times."--Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.916092History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman Administrations Herbert HooverClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Brought into the Harding administration and retained by Calvin Coolidge, he was highly successful in post the post-war world. Later as president he was confronted with the Great Depression which he is given too much blame for and not enough credit for his programs and efforts to end the depression. Vilified by Franklin Roosevelt, he was allowed to rehabilitate his image, starting with Harry Truman and time after time stepping up to serve his country.
A magnificent Opus to perhaps the most qualified man to hold the presidency, a must-read. ( )