The crusade years, 1933-1955 : Herbert Hoover's lost memoir of the New Deal Era and its aftermath / edited with an introduction by George H. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964, author.

Contributor:

Nash, George.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 641.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; number 641

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Ex-presidents--United States--Biography.

Ex-presidents.

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.

Hoover, Herbert.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (969 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career-and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955-this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940's and 1950's-and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting "crusade against collectivism" in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman

Contents:

part I. Some notes on family life

part II. Crusades for benevolent institutions

part III. The crusade against collectivism in American life

part IV. Crusade against American entry into World War II

part V. The crusade against the four horsemen in World War II - part VI. Crusade for less involvement in Europe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9780817916763

0817916768

9780817916787

0817916784

OCLC:

866442212