The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover--an engineer by training--exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s.
Award for Distinguished Writing in American History of Enduring Public Significance..
Schlesinger Jr.
In 2008, he was chosen as the first recipient of the Arthur M.
A winner of both the Bancroft and Parkman prizes, he is the author of numerous books on the New Deal.
Leuchtenburg, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a noted authority on twentieth-century American history.
About the Author: William E.
Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of this lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover\'s policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history.
From his retirement at Stanford University, Hoover remained a vocal critic of the New Deal and big government until the end of his long life.
Roosevelt in 1932.
As Leuchtenburg shows, Hoover\'s attempts to enlist the aid of private- sector leaders did little to mitigate the Depression, and he was routed from office by Franklin D.
Leuchtenburg demonstrates how Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government and his belief that volunteerism would solve all social ills.
Renowned New Deal historian William E.
As president, however, Hoover was sorely tested by America\'s first crisis of the twentieth century: the Great Depression.
The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover--an engineer by training--exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s
