Скачать или смотреть The Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoirs of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath

Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career -- more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955 -- The Crusade Years is a previously unknown memoir that Hoover composed and revised during the 1940s and 1950s -- and then, surprisingly, set aside. A parallel volume to Hoover's Freedom Betrayed, this work recounts Hoover's family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and his unrelenting "crusade against collectivism" in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover's political activities during the Roosevelt/Truman era and its window on Hoover's private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites readers to reflect on the factors that made possible his extraordinarily fruitful post-presidential years. As least as much as Theodore Roosevelt, he came to personify the activist ex-presidency; some historians even argue that he invented it.