This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States.

Autorentext
KENDRICK A. CLEMENTS Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Inhalt
Feeding Europe, 1918-1919 Family Affairs, 1918-1920 An Economic Program for the Consumer Society The Election of 1920 The European Relief Program, September 1919-1920 Family and Business, 1921 The Commerce Department, 1921 The 1921 Unemployment Conference The Russian Famine, 1921-1923 The American Child Health Association Family, 1922-1923 Hoover's Economic Idealism The Commerce Department, 1922 The Commerce Department, 1923 Alaska and Washington, 1923-1924 The Commerce Department, 1924 The Commerce Department, 1925 Family and Public Service, 1925-1928 The Commerce Department, 1926-1928 The Mississippi River and New England Floods of 1927 The Election of 1928 Imperfect Visionary