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From Publishers Weekly
"Food will win the war," proclaimed engineer-turned-bureaucrat Herbert Hoover, with a tinge of self-promotion, as head of the U.S. Food Administration, the WWI agency responsible for feeding America's troops overseas. While cloaking his efforts in the comforting language of voluntarism, the nervous, high-strung food czar, incessantly smoking Havana cigars, used a mix of price controls, exhortations, constraints and propaganda to seduce the general populace into eating less and reducing waste so our fighting forces could get adequate food supplies. As chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Hoover orchestrated a massive emergency operation that provided desperately needed food to millions of Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. Hoover became a hero to legions of American housewives, middle-class professionals and businessmen, though farmers, livestock producers and middlemen saw him as a meddling, insensitive outsider, an image that dogged the future president all the way to the White House. In this absorbing third installment of a multivolume biography, Nash, a historian of conservatism, reconstructs an important chapter in American history. Photos.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is the third volume in the author's ongoing biography of the 31st president. The first volume, The Engineer (LJ 3/1/83), covered the first 40 years of Hoover's life; the second, The Humanitarian (LJ 10/15/88), covered the years from 1914 to 1917. Since the current volume covers only slightly over a year and half and ends with Hoover still a decade away from his election as president, one hesitates to imagine how many more volumes will be required to bring the project to completion. As in the case of the earlier volumes, the current work is painstakingly researched and solidly written. It should be acquired by any library owning the first two volumes and by all academic and research libraries specializing in U.S. history. For public libraries desiring a less exhaustive treatment of the subject, such earlier, single-volume biographies as Joan Hoff Wilson's Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975) or Richard Norton Smith's An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (LJ 6/15/84)?both of which are currently in print?will probably suffice.
-?Scott K. Wright, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Food will win the war," proclaimed engineer-turned-bureaucrat Herbert Hoover, with a tinge of self-promotion, as head of the U.S. Food Administration, the WWI agency responsible for feeding America's troops overseas. While cloaking his efforts in the comforting language of voluntarism, the nervous, high-strung food czar, incessantly smoking Havana cigars, used a mix of price controls, exhortations, constraints and propaganda to seduce the general populace into eating less and reducing waste so our fighting forces could get adequate food supplies. As chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Hoover orchestrated a massive emergency operation that provided desperately needed food to millions of Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. Hoover became a hero to legions of American housewives, middle-class professionals and businessmen, though farmers, livestock producers and middlemen saw him as a meddling, insensitive outsider, an image that dogged the future president all the way to the White House. In this absorbing third installment of a multivolume biography, Nash, a historian of conservatism, reconstructs an important chapter in American history. Photos.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is the third volume in the author's ongoing biography of the 31st president. The first volume, The Engineer (LJ 3/1/83), covered the first 40 years of Hoover's life; the second, The Humanitarian (LJ 10/15/88), covered the years from 1914 to 1917. Since the current volume covers only slightly over a year and half and ends with Hoover still a decade away from his election as president, one hesitates to imagine how many more volumes will be required to bring the project to completion. As in the case of the earlier volumes, the current work is painstakingly researched and solidly written. It should be acquired by any library owning the first two volumes and by all academic and research libraries specializing in U.S. history. For public libraries desiring a less exhaustive treatment of the subject, such earlier, single-volume biographies as Joan Hoff Wilson's Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975) or Richard Norton Smith's An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (LJ 6/15/84)?both of which are currently in print?will probably suffice.
-?Scott K. Wright, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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