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This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America´s least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.

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The Long Dusty Road from West Branch Landslide Prepping for the Presidency and Sparring with Congress Humanizing Hoover A Whirling Dervish The Engine of Prosperity Jumps the Track The Seventy-First Congress: Fighting the Political Wars Hoover and the World: Foreign Policy, 1929-1930 A Polarized Party Combating the Depression: Phase One, 1929-1930 The Seventy-Second Congress: Frustrating, Yet Fruitful Fighting the Depression: Phase II, 1931-1932 Frustrated Farmers, Angry Veterans Race, Gender, and Labor The Grim Reaper Stalks the World: Foreign Affairs, 1931-1933 Life in the White House: Personal and Social The Peter Pan in Hoover: Children and Fish The Fourth Estate Running for His Life: The Election of 1932 The Hard Interregnum Fighting Quaker

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GLEN JEANSONNE Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His books include A Time of Paradox: American Since 1890; Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression; and Women of the Far Right: The Mothers Movement and World War II, among others. His second book, Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate, won the Gustavus Myer Award, the Wisconsin Writer´s Award, and was nominated for the Pulitizer Prize in Biography. Jeansonne has also published biographies of Barack Obama , Elvis Presley and Leander H. Perez, and more than sixty academic and popular articles.

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