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By the time this book was published, Herbert Hoover was well on his way to rehabilitation, thanks to Harry Truman (who was in this, as in many things, emulated by Eisenhower). It is, in a real sense, a memoir, written about the time when Hoover was at the beginning of his public life at a time when he might have thought he was at the end of it (he was to die 6 years later at 90). Hoover, whose name has long been synonymous with laissez-faire Republicanism, first rose to prominence under one of the most progressive Democratic presidents. Wilson's ordeal had to be particularly painful for Hoover in retrospect, since he suffered something similar himself. This is a marvelous curiosity that anyone generally interested in 20c American history must possess. I admit, however, that it's more of a browser than a page turner.
