Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index.
Contents:
Great engineer -- Great humanitarian -- Food czar -- Commerce -- Road to the White House -- False dawn -- Crash -- Global disorder -- Defeat -- Long good-bye -- Milestones.
Summary:
Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression.
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