In this absorbing third installment of a multivolume biography, Nash, a historian of conservatism, reconstructs an important chapter in American history. Hoover became a hero to legions of American housewives, middle-class professionals and businessmen, though farmers, livestock producers
| Title | : | The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917-1918 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (216 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393038416 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 672Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-6-4 |
| Language | : | English |
In this absorbing third installment of a multivolume biography, Nash, a historian of conservatism, reconstructs an important chapter in American history. Hoover became a hero to legions of American housewives, middle-class professionals and businessmen, though farmers, livestock producers and middlemen saw him as a meddling, insensitive outsider, an image that dogged the future president all the way to the White House. From Publishers Weekly "Food will win the war," proclaimed engineer-turned-bureaucrat Herbert Hoover, with a tinge of self-promotion, as head of the U.S. Food Administration, the WWI agency responsible for feeding America's troops overseas. As chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Hoover orchestrated a massive emergency operation that provided desperately needed food to millions of Belgian and Fre
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. His goal was to standardize food production to control surging food prices, and to create surpluses of exportable foodstuffs for America's allies. It also brought Hoover into international prominence.
Here Herbert Hoover moves toward Washington and center stage in his own country. Food Administration. "Food will win the war" became Hoover's slogan.
Hoover encountered the tumult of di
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