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Third printing of the First Edition [stated]
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American Political Biography Press
Published:
2012
Language:
English
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Like new [Removed from shrinkwrap for cataloging] in Like new jacket. xii, 433, [1] pages. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. The author shows Hoover as a man who foresaw the country's economic collapse, but whose rational and impersonal approach to social problems was bound to fail. David Burner was professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and founder of the Brandywine Press. Burner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965. In the 1970s, Burner shifted his scholarly focus to the other side of American politics. His biography Herbert Hoover: A Public Life became the most important contribution to the rehabilitation of the former president's reputation. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, which for decades had viewed Hoover as responsible for the untold suffering of the Great Depression, Burner viewed him as a more activist president than his GOP predecessors during the 1920s and anything but a laissez-faire purist. "By categorizing the needed reforms Hoover initiated prior to the crash, " one reviewer wrote, "Burner concludes that his presidency attempted to create great cooperative units that would receive energies from the bottom up and their efficiencies from the top downward. Burner describes Hoover as a strong president and suggests that his tenure be viewed as part of a larger effort dating back to his commerce years...an effort...distantly related to a later (post New Deal) joining of technical proficiency to a diffusion of power." Burner composed textbooks, anthologies, and documents collections, and his John F. Kennedy and a New Generation remains popular in the Library of American Biography. He was one of the extraordinary Americans of this century. Inexhaustibly energetic, a progressive and a humanitarian, he would build a society on the virtues of hard, intelligent work, voluntary cooperation, commonsensical decency, and good neighborliness. Yet for three decades after he left the presidency Herbert Hoover met with opprobrium and derision, and now his name is almost invariably associated with economic depression and inept leadership. But, as historian David Burner argues in this compellingly readable biography, the conventional view of our thirty-first President is distorted and largely unjust. Hoover's early years were in the classic American tradition. Born in Iowa, orphaned by the age of nine, raised by relatives in Oregon, he was in the first graduating class of Stanford University. He spent the next twenty years as a mining engineer and entrepreneur in Australia, China, and England, and quickly became a millionaire. His organizing and supervising of the massive Belgian relief operations of World War I made him an international figure, and he came home to the United States to oversee the wartime production and distribution of food. After the war he led a European relief program that saved millions of lives. When he became President in 1929-the first professional engineer to reach the White House-Hoover's standing was at its zenith, and he urged upon Congress a program that was the most socially adventurous proposed in America before Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days in 1933. But, as Burner makes clear, there were flaws in Hoover that rendered him unable to deal with the crises following the Wall Street crash of 1929. He shows Hoover as a lonely individualist traveling faithfully along on his own course, who understood the importance of instilling public confidence but could not bring himself to employ public relations technique to manufacture it.
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