An intensely private and shy man, Hoover the person was largely unknown to the American public. In this extensively researched biography devoted to the angling

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.

“At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full… [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives

The Republican efficiency expert whose economic boosterism met its match in the Great Depression Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to fe