{"product_id":"2940169151602","title":"Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times","description":"The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth centuryamp;ndash;a  revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans  understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great  Depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poor orphan who built a fortune, a great humanitarian, a president elected in a landslide and then routed in the next election, arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatismamp;ndash;Herbert Hoover is also one of our least understood presidents, conventionally seen only as a heartless failure for his handling of the Great Depression.\u003cbr\u003e     Kenneth Whyte fully captures this rich, dramatic life: from Hoover's difficult childhood to his meteoric business career, his work saving hundreds of thousands of lives during World War I and after the 1927 Mississippi floods, his presidency, his painful defeat by Roosevelt, and his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II. Whyte brings to life Hoover's complexity and contradictionsamp;ndash;his modesty and ambition, ruthlessness and extreme generosityamp;ndash;as well as his political legacy. Here is the epic, poignant story of the poor boy who became the most accomplished figure of his time, who worked ceaselessly to fight the Depression yet became the public face of America's greatest economic crisis. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that captures the full scale of this extraordinary life.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114128916720,"sku":"2940169151602","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169151602_p0.jpg?v=1763763584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169151602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}