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What a man! What a man was this Herbert Clark Hoover. Born in West Branch Iowa in 1874 to earnest Quakers Jessie and Huldah Hoover. His parents died young making Herbert an orphan at nine. He was farmed out to relatives and lived for a few years in Oregon with an erudite relative who was a medical doctor. Hoover worked at a variety of rural jobs and became interested in mining. He graduated in the first class to graduate from Stanford University in Palo Alto California. Hoover fell in love with Lou Henry and the two were both high achievers. He became a millionaire through his mining efforts in Western Australia and China. The Hoovers raised two boys Herbert Jr. and Allen. The family lived in London for over twenty years. Hoover was a globe traveler. During World War I he became head of the American Relief organization. Due to his hard work and outstanding leadership millions of Europeans in Belgium and Germany did not starve. Following the war he served in the Cabinet of POTUS Warren Harding as Commerce Secretary. He headed up relief efforts following the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Hoover also served in the cabinetof Calvin Coolidge. he was elected president in 1928 soundly defeating Democratic candidate Al Smith. Hoover was a trained engineer and geologist who tried to solve the problems of the Great Depression through the gold standard and tariff reforms. Despite his best efforts he failed ushering in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover became the grand old man of the GOP forging a friendship with President Harry S. Truman. He was a good man who was honest and a true public servant. The depression was not his fault. How to assess Hoover? A failed president but a great man is my viewpoint. Kenneth Whyte, whose book on William Randolph Hearst, I read years ago is a wonderful chronicler of Mr. Hoover. This is one of the best biographies of a POTUS I have ever read. Hoover was aloof, often grouchy and he could be rude and demanding. His business ethics were not the best but his administration in the White House was clean. Overall he was one of our most cosmopolitan and intelligent holders of the Oval Office. An outstanding biography. I highly recommend it to your consideration!
“Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed.â€Herbert Hoover, 1921I have now read at least one biography of every deceased president of the U.S. Not only was this biography one of the best, but it was one where I learned an awful lot about the man and his achievements of what he did outside the presidency. Sadly, history remembers presidents based on what they accomplished inside the walls of the White House (with the exception of a Grant or Eisenhower), whereas the rest of their achievements, past or future, tend to be relegated to footnotes. Hebert Hoover did an awful lot of great things a decade before he ever entered politics, and this book spends an adequate amount of time detailing these accomplishments. Even once Hoover becomes president, the author is a staunch apologist for his efforts and claims history has been unfair and unkind. More on that later.The first half of this book (about 300 pages) rarely, if ever, mentions politics. This is rare in presidential bios. For a person to reach the goal of being president, they must start the journey quite early. Hoover is the opposite. It’s his achievements as a private citizen that makes him a household name and catapults him into contention for the highest office in the land. I’m tempted to use Donald Trump as an example. But let’s not go there.Orphaned as a nine-year-old and shuffled to live with various relatives, Hoover eventually becomes a self-made millionaire as a geologist and mining engineer. The book gives a fair amount of detail in this area, but it’s when Hoover is living in England in the outbreak of World War I that his story really becomes interesting. This is where Hoover becomes a true hero. He starts by managing to chair an evacuation effort to the thousands of Americans abroad in Europe back to their homeland. Whether they’re living there temporarily or on vacation, such a cataclysmic event provides no easy way for the nervous travelers to get back home to safety. Hoover sees a need, formulates a plan, and manages to bring the boys, girls, etc. back home.Once accomplished, Hoover sees more he can do. For Germany to attack France, there’s no other way to get there other than through neutral Belgium. Once Germany goes through the Belgian border, the country is ransacked, the food is pillaged, the women are raped, and many citizens are basically forced into slave labor. Hoover sees all this and cries ‘foul’. Although the U.S. couldn’t do much initially (they wouldn’t enter the war until after the 3rd of the 4 years), he sees the Belgian population suffering and spends ample efforts putting together a relief effort that manages to at least feed the starving natives during the German occupation.Once that catastrophe is averted, he ends up being a sort of food czar once the U.S. enters the war. It’s crucial that all people, at home and abroad, conserve food if the allies are going to win the war. His planning and efforts are highly noticed, and this self-made millionaire shows his heart is bigger than his wallet. History also tells us that he assisted Russia during the 1920s when the country was starving as well, yet this book barely mentions this effort at all.So such a man is easily recognized and then selected as part of Calvin Coolidge’s cabinet as Secretary of Commerce during the 1920s. It’s at this point where Hoover gets the presidential bug. He claims he’ll only be considered if the people truly want him, but those who know things know better. It’s not surprising that Hoover wins the nomination in the election of 1928. To be brutally honest, his troubles start before the great depression sinks the country a year later.It seems that Hoover is a bit of a tough guy to figure out. Although his feats show he’s incredibly philanthropic, his mannerisms are quite confusing to those around him. He seems gruff, blunt, and not exactly a friendly guy. Since he had gobs of money and got (good) things done, this really shouldn’t matter. But we’re talking about a President here. A president needs to be political, needs to work with congress, and needs to compromise. Such things are a bit unfamiliar with this man. The fact that he’s never had to compromise with others to get anything done shows his Achilles Heel.Then the depression hits. Now, history tells us that Herbert Hoover should shoulder most of the blame since he apparently didn’t do enough neither before nor during this time, but author Kenneth Whyte spends a considerable amount of time defending the man and deflecting these criticisms. When one pays close attention to history, it is the consensus that the cause of the depression really can’t be pinned down, and the many methods that were implemented to counter the disaster had to be tested and tried. Some worked, many did not. There was even a well-publicized event when thousands of World War I veterans stormed the capital to demand their war pensions several years early. Again, Whyte dismisses this as minor and makes the event out to be less consequential than other historical reflections.With the country still mired in economic hardship as the next presidential election approaches, it’s common for the masses to blame the commander in chief for the dire consequences, so Hoover is voted out of office after one term. The author, again, makes the claim that new President Franklin Roosevelt really doesn’t do much better in aiding to end the depression, but Roosevelt is political. He knows how to talk to voters. He knows how to inspire. He knows how to make a speech without putting his audience to sleep. He is loved by many and goes on to be elected an unrivaled four terms. Roosevelt spends quite a lot of time in office bashing Hoover for the mess the country is in. Hoover can never quite understand why he is being treated so unfairly by this man. Again, Hoover simply doesn’t understand politics.So in conclusion, the author led me to believe that Hoover was a brilliant man, but a lousy politician. His biggest crime is not being able to lead the way leaders lead, nor can he inspire when the chips are down. In a roundabout way, the author shows us that charisma and personality can go a long way when leading a country, and one cannot simply be rich and/or brilliant. In fact, the only thing I didn’t like about this book was that the author quoted from Hoover’s speeches quite often, and most of these quotations were quite dull. Rich and brilliant? Definitely. Inspirational? Hardly.It’s a shame that many don’t know the real Herbert Hoover. Time is beginning to shed light in the dark spaces, and Kenneth Whyte does an excellent job showing us the real man. Yes, Hoover had a lot of warts, but he did some great things. I can’t help thinking that Netflix or someone should do a series on Hoover’s World War I accomplishments. It truly would be an eye opener.
An amazing biography of a man who came from nothing and made an amazing contribution to this country and the world. Herbert Hoover is remembered if at all for being the President during the early years of the depression. Portrayed by many as aloof, uncaring and ineffective, this book shows that Hoover was a man of amazing accomplishments. Born into a small town in Iowa and becoming part of Stanford's first graduating class, Hoover was a man who was involved in many things. A mining engineer who traveled the world with his wife Lou, he became well known to the American people during World War I for his handling of food supplies. He directed relief for the Belgian people and many other European countries. Secretary of Commerce for three Presidents, he was a prolific public servant. As President he tried to stem the effects of the Great Depression. However he didn't have the warm personal touch that FDR did. People didn't perceive that he cared. He did care but just had trouble showing that concern.Hoover will go down in history perhaps as a failed presidency yet his four years in the White House were just a small part of an amazing life. Read this and you will understand that Hoover was a person of amazing accomplishment and deserving of much more praise for his contributions to our country.
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