ISBN: | 9781451648676 (hardcover) |
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ISBN: | 9781451648683 (trade paper) |
编目源: | DLC DLC DLC |
地理区域代码: | n-us--- |
个人名称: | Rappleye, Charles, |
题名: | Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency / Charles Rappleye. |
版本说明: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
索书号: | K837.127/R221E |
载体形态: | xx, 554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-525) and index. |
格式化内容附注: | Part I. The rise and fall of Herbert Hoover -- He did not choose -- A political diptych -- Flashpoints, and a landslide -- "Hoover the silent" -- Bright with hope -- The Wall Street Frankenstein -- The special session -- The crash -- The president's hair shirts -- "The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover" -- Part II. War on a thousand fronts -- Challenging facts -- Friction at the Fed -- The ground gives way -- Playing politics with human misery -- The ghost of Grover Cleveland -- Credit crunch -- The Gibraltar of world stability -- Reconstruction -- Part III. The bitter end -- Roosevelt rising -- The conflicted candidate -- Evil magic -- President reject -- Interregnum -- The sound of crashing banks. |