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An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover
An Uncommon Man The Triumph of Herbert Hoover Author:Richard Norton Smith Based on more than two hundred interviews and thousands of pages of private papers, it is the first truly intimate look at the man dismissed by contemporaries. It is also a stunning reappraisal of 20th-century history, across a canvas as large as the world itself. — Covers the period when Hoover overcame his defeat by FDR and carved out a role fo... more »r himself in the isolationist campaigns preceeding World War II and during the Korean conflict.« less