The Herbert Hoover Story (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Catherine Owens Peare
- First Published: 1965
- Time of Work: 1874–1964
- Setting: Iowa, Oregon, California, Washington, D.C., China, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, Europe, the Soviet Union, and Latin America
- Principal Characters: Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, Theodore Hoover, Will Irwin, Laban J. Miles, Henry and Laura Minthorn, Jan Paderewski, Thomas Woodrow Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Nineteenth century, Depression, economic, American Dream, Politicians, Presidents, Biography, Engineering, Republican Party
- Locales: California, Europe, Soviet Union, Washington, D.C., Oregon, China, Japan, Iowa, Latin America, Australia, Southeast Asia
Form and Content
Catherine Owens Peare’s The Herbert Hoover Story is a straightforward biographical account of Hoover’s life from birth to death. The emphasis throughout the book is upon the admirable characteristics, which young readers are expected to note, that carried Hoover from humble beginnings as an orphaned boy in Iowa to world fame as an engineer, administrator, and president of the United States. Writing in 1965, the year following Hoover’s death, Peare was able to draw upon a substantial list of timely and relevant published sources, including...
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