Presidents are often remembered for their accomplishments in office. George Washington led us in the wake of the Revolution, Thomas Jefferson expanded the United States territory, Abraham Lincoln ...

My recent biography of Iowa native Herbert Hoover, "Herbert Hoover: A Life," is an attempt to uplift his reputation from the dustbin of history into the stratosphere of great Americans. Born in the ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding. Hoover was ...

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte (Knopf, $35). Wise historians know better than to pigeonhole notable figures--things are often just too complex--and with no ...

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times. By Kenneth Whyte. Knopf; 752 pages; $35. FOR his philanthropic efforts during the first world war, Herbert Hoover was described as a “man who ...

America has had two presidents who, without question, deserve to have been labeled as tycoons prior to their presidencies — Herbert Hoover and Donald Trump. For both men, their past successes in ...

Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) would have satisfied anyone who believed a businessman would make an ideal president. In this outstanding addition to the American President series, Bancroft Prize–winning ...

Born to Quaker parents in 1874 in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, Hoover was orphaned at the age of 9 and sent off to live with relatives in Oregon. He did not attend high school—he worked and ...

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s ...

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