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Obras de Kenneth Whyte

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1960-08-12
Género
male

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Kenneth Whytes’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life I. Extraordinary Times is a fascinating full life of Herbert Hoover. Hoover was an amazing man who lost both of his parents early in life and was largely thereafter raised by his uncle and his family. A man who pulled himself up and attended Stanford. Afterwards, he became attached to the mining industry, traveling all over the world and becoming a leading expert in the field traveling around the world, including Australia and China. After a highly successful business career, he was brought into public service by Woodrow Wilson to with humanitarian assistance, especially chronic hunger i. Europe during World War I, beginning his career in public service.

Brought into the Harding administration and retained by Calvin Coolidge, he was highly successful in post the post-war world. Later as president he was confronted with the Great Depression which he is given too much blame for and not enough credit for his programs and efforts to end the depression. Vilified by Franklin Roosevelt, he was allowed to rehabilitate his image, starting with Harry Truman and time after time stepping up to serve his country.

A magnificent Opus to perhaps the most qualified man to hold the presidency, a must-read.
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dsha67 | 7 reseñas más. | Apr 13, 2024 |
Might almost serve as an apologia for Hoover (and a take-down of FDR, in the last hundred or so pages), but that's what you want in a biography, I suppose. The writer is obviously a great fan of Hoover, and I came to like him too. A very thorough life, and not without the warts.
 
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mlevel | 7 reseñas más. | Jan 22, 2024 |
Very good! I learned alot about Hoover.
The author, while not a Hoover apologist, does seem to have a bias toward the subject. Nevertheless, Hoover turned out to be much more interesting then I thought he would be and the book is well written with a good flow to it.
 
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Rockhead515 | 7 reseñas más. | Jan 11, 2022 |
An excellent portrayal of the issue of automobile safety historically throughout the Twentieth-Century and beyond. Focusing on the big three in Detroit; GM, Ford and Chrysler, GM in particular. The arguments are all well laid out and backed up by documentation. Takes down a few sacred cows from that era.
 
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charlie68 | Dec 23, 2021 |

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