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Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites
The University of North Carolina Press 1985; US$ 45.00For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial progress. He shows that Hoover's efforts to reform... more...
Bylines in Despair
ABC-CLIO 1994; US$ 106.95Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's... more...
The Twenties in America
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 31.82Offering an account of the politics and history of the 1920s in America, this book points out key distinctions between the governing styles and political philosophies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. It argues that social and technological change resulted in lines of conflict over poverty, race, religion, and employment rights being redrawn. more...
Uncommon Americans
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 119.00This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch, Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library,... more...
Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 119.99The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II relates the events of this crucial period in U.S. history through a chronology, an introductory essay, over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations. more...
Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 168.00Today when most Americans think of the Great Depression, they imagine desperate hoboes riding the rails in search of work, unemployed men selling pencils to indifferent crowds, bootleggers hustling illegal booze to secrecy-shrouded speakeasies, FDR smiling, or Judy Garland skipping along the yellow brick road. Hard times have become an abstraction.... more...
The Harding Affair
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 18.99Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their... more...
The Life of Herbert Hoover
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 60.00This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. more...
Access to History for the IB diploma
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 30.38This series has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it for the History IB Diploma. more...








