Bibliography of Herbert Hoover

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The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States. For recent work see Ellis W. Hawley (2018). For older studies see Patrick G. O’Brien and Philip T. Rosen, (1981), 25–42, 83–99 and Patrick G. O’Brien, (1988).

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Biographies[]

• Best, Gary Dean. The Politics of American Individualism: Herbert Hoover in Transition, 1918–1921 (1975)
  • Best, Gary Dean. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 1933–1964. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Burner, David (1979). Herbert Hoover: The Public Life. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-394-46134-2.
• Clements, Kendrick A. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928 (2010).
• Edwards, Barry C. "Putting Hoover on the Map: Was the 31st President a Progressive?." Congress & the Presidency 41#1 (2014) pp 49–83 online
• Fausold, Martin L. (1985). The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0259-9.
• Gelfand, Lawrence E. ed. Herbert Hoover: The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1923 (1979)

• Hawley, Ellis. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice (1981).
• Hawley, Ellis (1989), Herbert Hoover and the Historians.
• Jeansonne, Glen. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928–1933. Palgrave Macmillan; 2012.
• Jeansonne, Glen. Herbert Hoover: A Life (2016), 464pp; comprehensive scholarly biography
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (2009). Herbert Hoover. Times Books (Henry Holt and Company). ISBN 978-0-8050-6958-7.
• Lloyd, Craig. Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932 (1973).
• Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer 1874–1914 (1983); in-depth scholarly study
  • ———— (1988), The Humanitarian, 1914–1917, The Life of Herbert Hoover, vol. 2.
  • ———— (1996), Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918, The Life of Herbert Hoover, vol. 3.
• Nash, Lee, ed. Understanding Herbert Hoover: Ten Perspectives (1987); essays by scholars
• Nash, George H. (1983). The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer 1874–1914. W W Norton. ISBN 978-0393016345. Book 1 in The Life of Herbert Hoover Series.
• Rappleye (2016). Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4869-0.
• Smith, Gene. The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1970)
• Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, (1987), biography concentrating on post 1932.
• Walch, Timothy. ed. Uncommon Americans: The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover Praeger, 2003.
• West, Hal Elliott. Hoover, The Fishing President: Portrait of the Man and his Life Outdoors (2005).
• Whyte, Kenneth. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Time (2017). 752pp excerpt
• Wilson, Joan Hoff (1975). Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-94416-8.

Scholarly studies[]

• Extensive annotated bibliography at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Claus Bernet (2009). "Hoover, Herbert". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 30. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 644–653. ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6.
• Barber, William J. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933. (1985)
• Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998), Hoover played a major role
• Britten, Thomas A. "Hoover and the Indians: the Case for Continuity in Federal Indian Policy, 1900–1933" Historian 1999 61(3): 518–538. ISSN 0018-2370
• Calder, James D. The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy: Herbert Hoover's Initiatives Praeger, 1993
• Carcasson, Martin (Spring 1998). "Herbert Hoover and the Presidential Campaign of 1932: The Failure of Apologia". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 28 (2): 349–365. JSTOR 27551864.
• Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. University Press of Kansas, 2000
• DeConde, Alexander. Herbert Hoover's Latin American Policy. (1951)
• Dodge, Mark M., ed. Herbert Hoover and the Historians. (1989)
• Doenecke, Justus D (1987). "Anti-Interventionism of Herbert Hoover" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies. 8 (2): 311–340.
• Eichengreen, Barry; Temin, Peter (2000). "The Gold Standard and the Great Depression" (PDF). Contemporary European History. 9 (2): 183–207. doi:10.1017/S0960777300002010. JSTOR 20081742. S2CID 158383956.
• Fausold Martin L. and George Mazuzan, eds. The Hoover Presidency: A Reappraisal (1974)
• Ferrell, Robert H. (1957). American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover–Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933. Yale University Press.
• Goodman, Mark; Gring, Mark (2000). "The Ideological Fight over Creation of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927". Journalism History. 26 (3): 117–124. doi:10.1080/00947679.2000.12062550. S2CID 197612960.
• Hamilton, David E. From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. (1991)
• Hart, David M. (1998), "Herbert Hoover's Last Laugh: the Enduring Significance of the 'Associative State' in the United States", Journal of Policy History, 10 (4): 419–444, doi:10.1017/S0898030600007156
• Hatfield, Mark, ed. Herbert Hoover Reassessed: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of Our Thirty-First President (US Government Printing Office, 1981). online free, major collection of 29 essays by scholars

• Hawley, Ellis (1974). "Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an 'Associative State', 1921–1928". Journal of American History. 61 (1): 116–140. doi:10.2307/1918256. JSTOR 1918256.
• Hawley, Ellis."Herbert Hoover and the Historians—Recent Developments: A Review Essay" Annals of Iowa 78#1 (2018) p. 75-86 https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.12547
• Houck, Davis W (2000). "Rhetoric as Currency: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 Stock Market Crash". Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 3 (2): 155–181. doi:10.1353/rap.2010.0156. S2CID 154447214.
• Hutchison, Janet (1997). "Building for Babbitt: the State and the Suburban Home Ideal". Journal of Policy History. 9 (2): 184–210. doi:10.1017/s0898030600005923.
• Kaufman, Bruce E. (2012). "Wage Theory, New Deal Labor Policy, and the Great Depression: Were Government and Unions to Blame?". Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 65 (3): 501–532. doi:10.1177/001979391206500302. hdl:10072/48703. JSTOR 24368882. S2CID 54877676.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (2009). Herbert Hoover. Times Books (Henry Holt and Company). ISBN 978-0-8050-6958-7.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (Summer 2009). "The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time". American Heritage. 59 (2).
• Lichtman, Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 (1979)
• Lisio, Donald J. The President and Protest: Hoover, MacArthur, and the Bonus Riot, 2d ed. (1994)
• Lisio, Donald J. Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-whites: A Study of Southern Strategies (1985)
• Malin, James C. The United States after the World War. 1930. extensive coverage of Hoover's Commerce Dept. policies
• O'Brien, Patrick G. “Hoover and Historians: Revisionism Since 1980,” Annals of Iowa 49#5 (1988), 394–402. online
• O'Brien, Patrick G.; Rosen, Philip T. (1981). "Hoover and the Historians: the Resurrection of a President". The Annals of Iowa. 46 (2): 83–99. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.8816.
• Olson, James S. Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1931–1933 (1977)
• Robinson, Edgar Eugene and Vaughn Davis Bornet. Herbert Hoover: President of the United States. (1976)
• Romasco, Albert U. The Poverty of Abundance: Hoover, the Nation, the Depression (1965)
• Schwarz, Jordan A. The Interregnum of Despair: Hoover, Congress, and the Depression. (1970). Hostile to Hoover
• Sibley, Katherine A.S., ed. A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (2014); 616pp; essays by scholars stressing historiography
• Stoff, Michael B. "Herbert Hoover: 1929–1933". The American Presidency: The Authoritative Reference. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (2004), 332–343
• Sobel, Robert Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression 1929–1930 (1975)
• Tracey, Kathleen. Herbert Hoover–A Bibliography: His Writings and Addresses. (1977)
• Wilbur, Ray Lyman, and Arthur Mastick Hyde. The Hoover Policies. (1937). In depth description of his administration by two cabinet members
• Wueschner, Silvano A. Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917–1927. Greenwood, 1999

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