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About this book
This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Feeding Europe, 1918–1919
- 2 Family Affairs, 1918–1920
- 3 An Economic Program for the Consumer Society
- 4 The Election of 1920
- 5 The European Relief Program, September 1919–1921
- 6 Family and Business, 1921
- 7 The Commerce Department, 1921
- 8 The 1921 Unemployment Conference
- 9 The Russian Famine, 1921–1923
- 10 Hoover and the American Child Health Association
- 11 Family, 1922–1923
- 12 Hoover’s Economic Idealism
- 13 The Commerce Department, 1922
- 14 The Commerce Department, 1923
- 15 Alaska and Washington, 1923–1924
- 16 The Commerce Department, 1924
- 17 The Commerce Department, 1925
- 18 Family and Public Service, 1925–1928
- 19 The Commerce Department, 1926–1928
- 20 The Mississippi River and New England Floods of 1927
- 21 The Election of 1928
- 22 Imperfect Visionary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index