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Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964

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Works: 3,287 works in 4,547 publications in 18 languages and 111,135 library holdings
Genres: Special events coverage  Campaign speeches  Manuscripts, American 
Roles: Translator, Speaker, Performer, Author of introduction, Commentator, Correspondent, Editor, Signer, Dedicatee
Classifications: e802, 973.9160924
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Publications about Herbert Hoover Publications about Herbert Hoover
Publications by Herbert Hoover Publications by Herbert Hoover
posthumous Publications by Herbert Hoover, published posthumously.
Most widely held works about Herbert Hoover
 
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40 editions published between and 1979 in English and Miscellaneous languages and held by 2,565 libraries worldwide
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21 editions published between and 1992 in English and held by 2,295 libraries worldwide
The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.
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16 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 1,580 libraries worldwide
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24 editions published between and 1969 in English and held by 1,456 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1971 in English and held by 1,385 libraries worldwide
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30 editions published between and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,180 libraries worldwide
Bergbau.
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20 editions published between and 1949 in English and held by 1,131 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 1964 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,080 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1970 in English and held by 1,003 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 774 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1990 in English and held by 711 libraries worldwide
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26 editions published between and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 710 libraries worldwide
From the Preface: Hoover's message in American Individualism was not so gray as his prose. Like most one-time Progressives, he looked forward to perpetual advance, spurred on by technology, inhibited only by irrational politicians, greedy interest groups, and what he called "individualism run riot." His was an incremental idealism, wherein personal success was tempered and purified by service to others. "Character is made in the community as well as in the individual by assuming responsibilities," wrote the man who had abandoned his engineering career to feed war-ravaged Europe, "not by escape from them." In his 1922 work, the future president envisioned a delicate balancing act between capitalists, workers and a public represented by the national government. Should one group gain authority over the others, the result would be fascism, socialism, or tyranny by bureaucracy. And individualism-the mainspring of American greatness-would be crippled for good. Twelve years would pass before Hoover's next attempt at codifying values. The Challenge to Liberty was necessarily a very different work, less a summons to cooperation than a warning against incipient fascism. "I am no more fond of the Wall Street model of liberty than I am of the Pennsylvania Avenue model," asserted the former president, for whom the Bill of Rights took precedence over property rights. Now, as in 1922, Hoover wrote in the shadow of revolution, nationalistic frenzy and economic confusion. But he did not fear Depression-era mobs in the streets of American cities. The threat to liberty was more subtile than that. What Hoover termed "the tragedy of Liberty" followed a similar pattern on both sides of the Atlantic: "idealism without realism, slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions, demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness in the system itself." Next came the man on horseback, demanding delegation of authority from elected representatives, denouncing all opposition and exploiting propagandists in the pay of the state.
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5 editions published in in English and held by 707 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 694 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1981 in English and held by 613 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and held by 548 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published in in English and held by 547 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 534 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1990 in 3 languages and held by 506 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1972 in English and held by 491 libraries worldwide
 
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The ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
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controlled identity Spojené státy americké. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) ko2010584126

controlled identity United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover)

Hoover.
Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964
Hoover, Herbert C.
Hoover, Herbert C. 1874-1964
Hoover, Herbert Clark.
Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1874-1964
Hoover, Herbert Clark, Pres. U.S., 1874-1964
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