TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rappleye,Charles
TI  - Herbert Hoover in the White House: the ordeal of the presidency 
SN  - 9781451648676
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Hoover, Herbert,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1929-1933
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. The rise and fall of Herbert Hoover -- He did not choose -- A political diptych -- Flashpoints, and a landslide -- "Hoover the silent" -- Bright with hope -- The Wall Street Frankenstein -- The special session -- The crash -- The president's hair shirts -- "The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover" -- Part II. War on a thousand fronts -- Challenging facts -- Friction at the Fed -- The ground gives way -- Playing politics with human misery -- The ghost of Grover Cleveland -- Credit crunch -- The Gibraltar of world stability -- Reconstruction -- Part III. The bitter end -- Roosevelt rising -- The conflicted candidate -- Evil magic -- President reject -- Interregnum -- The sound of crashing banks
N2  - Describes the uphill battle faced by the thirty-first president, who served his single term during the Great Depression, portraying the man as bright, well-meaning, and energetic but ultimately lacking in the tools of leadership. --Publisher
ER  -