Hoover in Biography Books

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A respected New Deal historian evaluates how the challenges of the Great Depression were initially met by the thirty-first president, exploring the ways in which his World War I campaigns and beliefs about volunteerism shaped his failed policies, led to his unsuccessful reelection campaign against FDR, and marked his post-office criticism of big government. 20,000 first printing.

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An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the former FBI director traces their early shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths, in an anecdotal account that considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King, and Marilyn Monroe.

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An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the former FBI director traces their early shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths, in an anecdotal account that considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King, and Marilyn Monroe. Reprint.

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A country doctor shares a collection of anecdotes and reminscences about his thirty-six-year career working among the Amish people of Wayne, Holmes, and other Ohio counties, capturing the world of a family practitioner in a rural, predominantly Amish community as he shares the lives, illnesses, and deaths of his patients. Reprint.

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A biography in the format of a graphic novel offers a fascinating portrait of the life and career of J. Edgar Hoover, his service under eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--his place in the creation of the FBI, his often turbulent personal life, and his role during Prohibition, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and more.

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In the bestselling tradition of "Yeager" comes the extraordinary autobiography of one of America's greatest aviators. Barnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, aerobatics genius Bob Hoover tells his amazing story, sharing the thrills and chills, spectacular stunts, and death-defying exploits that have made him a living aviation legend. of photos.

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A country doctor shares a collection of anecdotes and reminscences about his thirty-six-year career working among the Amish people of Wayne, Holmes, and other Ohio counties, capturing the world of a family practitioner in a rural, predominantly Amish community as he shares the lives, illnesses, and deaths of his patients. Book available.

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In a study of Lou Henry Hoover's White House years from 1929-1933, the author draws on Lou Hoover's personal papers to show that she was a transitional figure between nineteenth- and twentieth-century views on womanhood.

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"Hoover's book was meant as a tribute to his former chief, but is ti easy to suspect that anger and hurt might underlie a portrayal that presents the worst as well as the best in one of our greatest statesmen. What makes Hoover's memoir especially valuable to readers already familiar with the story are matters of tone and interpretation which Hoover himself . . . probably did not notice that he was making available."--David Burner, The Atlantic Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

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Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. A New York Times bestseller. 32 pages of photographs.

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A biography of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression.

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It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history with his efforts in the Commission of Relief in Belgium. This side of Hoover is the focus of Nash's comprehensive volume.

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A biography of Herbert Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, millionaire businessman, stateman, humanitarian relief worker, and president during the Great Depression.

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A biography of the thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression.

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Introduces readers to Herbert Hoover and his presidency, outlining his childhood, world travels, induction into office, and life after his term.

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The entry of the United States into the First World War in late 1917 found Herbert Hoover at a crossroads. Three years earlier, he had been a successful mining engineer in London. Then, as the war intensified in Europe, Hoover founded and led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, which provided desperately needed fuel to more than nine million Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. That emergency undertaking eventually evolved into one of the greatest humanitarian enterprises in history. It also brought Hoover into international prominence. <BR> Here Herbert Hoover moves toward Washington and center stage in his own country. Shortly after the United States's declaration of war, he entered into able service under Woodrow Wilson as a member of the President's War Cabinet and U.S. Food Administration. His goal was to standardize food production to control surging food prices, and to create surpluses of exportable foodstuffs for America's allies. "Food will win the war" became Hoover's slogan. <BR> Hoover encountered the tumult of district politics and became both agent and catalyst of the moment in American lives when a traditionally decentralized economy was coming under price control and other forms of governmental restraint. We see Hoover as builder and bureaucrat, a man who brought force, drive, and ability into the service of his country.