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Online-Ressource (969 p)
ISBN:
9780817916749
Content:
Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career-and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955-this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950s-and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting "crusade against collectivism" in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt and Truman eras, and its window on Hoover's private life and
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Description based upon print version of record
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EDITOR'S NOTE ON SOURCES AND EDITING METHODS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; PART I; Some Notes on Family Life; INTRODUCTION; PART II; Crusades for Benevolent Institutions; CHAPTER 4; The Passing of Mrs. Hoover; CHAPTER 3; The Bohemian Club Encampment; CHAPTER 2; Recreation; CHAPTER 1; Family Life; PART III; The Crusade against Collectivism in American Life; CHAPTER 5; Crusading for Benevolent Institutions; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 7; The Crusade against Collectivism-Continued; CHAPTER 6; The Crusade against Collectivism to the Presidential Campaign of 1936
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Editor's Postscript to Part IIICHAPTER 16; The Continental Crusade after 1952; CHAPTER 15; The Crusade against Collectivism from the Presidential Election of 1948 to the Presidential Election in 1952; CHAPTER 14; The Crusade against Collectivism from the Congressional Election of 1946 to the Presidential Election of 1948; CHAPTER 13; The Crusade against Collectivism from the Presidential Election of 1944 to the Congressional Election of 1946; CHAPTER 12; The Presidential Conventions and Campaigns of 1944; CHAPTER 11
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The Crusade against Collectivism from the Election of 1940 to the Presidential Campaign of 1944CHAPTER 10; The Crusade against Collectivism from the 1938 Congressional Election to the Presidential Election of 1940; CHAPTER 9; The Crusade against Collectivism from the Landon Defeat in 1936 to the Congressional Election in 1938 (Continued); CHAPTER 8; The Crusade against Collectivism from the Landon Defeat until the Congressional Election of 1938; APPENDIX I; Other Crusades; APPENDIX II; Selected Documents Pertaining to Hoover's Crusade Book Project; INDEX; Illustration Sources/Credits
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About the Author and the Editor
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817916763
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817916749
Additional Edition:
Print version The Crusade Years, 1933?1955
Language:
English
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