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Author Whyte, Kenneth, author.

Title Hoover [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] an extraordinary life in extraordinary times / by Kenneth Whyte.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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Note "A Borzoi Book."
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Contents A pretty stiff time -- A whole jug full of experience -- I am the Devil -- The adventures of Hu-hua and Hoo loo -- The late jar rather smashed my nerves -- What lies beyond wealth -- Hard to state without becoming hysterical -- A pirate state organized for benevolence -- Make way for the Almoner of starving Belgium -- A hero in the house of truth -- Inconsolable in the hall of mirrors -- An engineer at the opera -- Meddling with God's economy -- Hoover v. a botched civilization -- Scandal, embarrassment, and the little feller -- Sleepless in good times -- The wonder boy -- Giving genius its chance -- He didn't know where the votes came from -- Nothing to fear but fear itself -- Just when we thought it was over -- It seemed like the end of the world -- The president in his fighting clothes -- A human creature desperately hurt and pained -- Through the abyss in a Buick -- Father of the new conservatism -- Reborn in a darker world -- Epilogue: I admire a lot in Hoover's career.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2017 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1929-1933.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1919-1933.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN 9781524732462 (electronic bk.)
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