Herbert Hoover: President of the United States

This detailed account of Herbert Hoover’s presidency reveals him as a staunch defender of constitutional government and one of our least understood presidents. Battling political partisanship while trying to place the needs of the nation as a whole over those of state and localities, Hoover found his program for America’s entry into the new scientific era overwhelmed by profound changes in the social and economic structure of a nation entering a new age.