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This 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.Tags
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Glen Jeansonne is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books include A Time of Paradox: American Since 1890; Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression; and Women of the Far Right: The Mothers Movement and World War II, among others. Jeansonne has also published biographies of Barack Obama, Elvis show more Presley, and Leander H. Perez, and more than sixty academic and popular articles. www.historyjeansonne.com show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933
- People/Characters
- Herbert Hoover
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- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 973.916092 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) Great Depression, Wall Street Crash of 1929,
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- E802 .J43 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century 1919-1933. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era. "The Hoover's administration, 1919-1933
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
