Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency / Charles Rappleye.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xx, 554 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451648676 (hardcover)
- 9781451648683 (trade paper)
- 973.91/6092 B 23
- E802 .R335 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The rise and fall of Herbert Hoover -- He did not choose -- A political diptych -- Flashpoints, and a landslide -- "Hoover the silent" -- Bright with hope -- The Wall Street Frankenstein -- The special session -- The crash -- The president's hair shirts -- "The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover" -- Part II. War on a thousand fronts -- Challenging facts -- Friction at the Fed -- The ground gives way -- Playing politics with human misery -- The ghost of Grover Cleveland -- Credit crunch -- The Gibraltar of world stability -- Reconstruction -- Part III. The bitter end -- Roosevelt rising -- The conflicted candidate -- Evil magic -- President reject -- Interregnum -- The sound of crashing banks.