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- Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye
Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye
Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye
Often dismissed as passive, unsympathetic, and paralyzed by national events, Hoover in fact struggled to respond to the Great Depression. In Herbert Hoover in the White House, Charles Rappleye draws on fresh sources -- including memoirs, diaries, troves of documents written by his cabinet and close advisors. They reveal a different Hoover than the often misunderstood president.
In public Hoover was shy and retiring. In private he was intense, passionate, and sometimes serious -- a man who perceived plots against him and raged against his enemies. He was also more sophisticated and proactive in economic policy than is often recognized. anticipating programs of strategic investment and quantitative easing that were deployed against the Great Recession eighty years later. But his best efforts could not avert the national nightmare, and his technical efforts were quickly eclipsed by the political mastery of the man who became his nemesis -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Hover proved in the end to be the mirror image of Oliver Wendell Holmes's assessment of FDR: Hoover had a first-class mind and a second-class temperament. His term in the White House was marked by deep personal disappointment as he struggled mightily, and often single-handedly, to cope with the greatest economic calamity of the modern era. Here is the untold story of a president and a nation in crisis.
SIMON & SCHUSTER, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2016.
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