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The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable People in the usa of the 20th hundred years - a revisionist account that will forever change just how Americans understand the person, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune, a great humanitarian, a chief executive elected in a landslide and then routed within the next election, arguably the father of both New Package liberalism and modern conservatism - Herbert Hoover is also one of the least understood presidents, conventionally seen only as a heartless failing for his handling of the Great Depression. Kenneth Whyte fully captures this abundant, remarkable life: from Hoover's difficult childhood to his meteoric business job, his work conserving hundreds of thousands of lives during World Conflict I and after the 1927 Mississippi floods, his presidency, his agonizing defeat by Roosevelt, and his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help Western refugees after World Conflict II. Whyte brings to life Hoover's complexness and contradictions - his modesty and ambition, ruthlessness and extreme generosity - as well as his politics legacy. Here is the epic, poignant story of the poor young man who became the most completed figure of his time, who functioned ceaselessly to struggle the Despair yet became the general public face of America's best economic turmoil. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that catches the full level of this astonishing life.
