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.

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

“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