Uncommon Americans: The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover

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This first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover's image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch, Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, brings together contributions from leading scholars who have conducted extensive research into the lives of this extraordinary couple, placing them in a national and international context. He hopes to entice more historians to delve into the intricacies of their lives.

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Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover are still sadly not in vogue, but this collection of essays attempts to rediscover, reexamine, and reposition the various dimensions of the Hoovers' courageous lives as uncommon Americans.-The Annals of Iowa
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"Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover are still sadly not in vogue, but this collection of essays attempts to rediscover, reexamine, and reposition the various dimensions of the Hoovers' courageous lives as uncommon Americans."-The Annals of Iowa

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TIMOTHY WALCH is the director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in the president's birthplace of West Branch, Iowa. The Hoover Library is one of ten such libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Educated at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University, Walch is the author of fifteen books, including Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt (Greenwood, 1998), Herbert Hoover and Harry S Truman (1992), At the President's Side (1997), and Farewell to the Chief (1990).