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Hoover the Fishing President

Portrait of the Private Man and His Adventurous Life Outdoors

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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Hoover the Fishing President

Portrait of the Private Man and His Adventurous Life Outdoors

By: Hal Elliott Wert

An intensely private and shy man, Hoover the person was largely unknown to the American public. In this extensively researched biography devoted to the angling side of Hoover, author Hal Elliott Wert examines the often overlooked life of our thirty-first president. In a presidency plagued by the Depression, in a time when the country was poised between the agrarian society of the past and the advent of a modern professional class, Herbert Hoover faced numerous challenges. A thinker and a doer who shaped the way we live today, Hoover found relief from the stresses of his professional life in his pastime, fishing. Herbert Hoover fished near his hometown of West Branch, Iowa, as a boy and then moved to Oregon, where he fished the Rogue, Willamette, McKenzie, and Columbia rivers. As a young man, he attended Stanford and fished and camped throughout the West during breaks. He fished and spent time in the outdoors throughout his life and especially in his years as president. He founded Cave Man Camp at Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco, a yearly getaway for powerful Republicans, and Camp Rapidan in Virginia while he was in the White House. In addition to freshwater fishing, Hoover enjoyed fishing the salt. On trips to Florida later in his life, he stalked bonefish and fished for permit and the larger species, such as sailfish.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811768937

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9780811768931

Hoover vs. Roosevelt

Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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Hoover vs. Roosevelt

Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

By: Hal Elliott Wert

Herbert Hoover, out of office since his defeat in 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt, maintained a strong international reputation due to his achievements as an engineer and his success during World War I and beyond in organizing aid for the starving millions of Europe. And yet, in nearly all accounts of the ferocious debate over American aid to Europe before the United States entered World War II, Hoover’s role has been overlooked. Hoover vs. Roosevelt tells the story of American efforts to stay out of war following the German invasion of Poland. Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., called it “the most savage political debate of my lifetime.” Both men fiercely disagreed on how to respond but the heart of their disagreement was over aid for the huge numbers of Polish refugees flooding into neighboring countries and those that were left behind. Hoover found Roosevelt’s policy of limited emergency aid unacceptable, countering by rapidly assembling teams comprised of talented people who had served in prior Hoover relief organizations. Here for the first time are the courageous stories of those that achieved that success in Romania, Hungary, and Lithuania. When the Soviets invaded Finland on November 30, Hoover assisted the Finns by conducting a Hollywood, star-studded campaign spearheading nation-wide support for this small country. But Hoover’s relief efforts were complicated by his burning ambition to obtain the Republican presidential nomination, a second opportunity to defeat Roosevelt. For Roosevelt, Hoover’s relief successes threatened to derail his limited aid policy which aimed to conserve resources to assist Britain and France and could also cost the president votes. Politics aside, Hoover wars in the first year of the war succeeded in forcing Roosevelt to provide far more aid then intended. Hoover’s victory, the only one achieved in his battles with Roosevelt, accomplished relief for hundreds of thousands in need. Widely and deeply researched in an array of rarely used secondary and primary sources, both domestic and international. Hoover vs. Roosevelt reveals the story of the two contenders’ battles over feeding Europe and going to war.

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0811769704

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9780811769709

George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents

The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents

The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years

By: Hal Elliott Wert

Compilation of political posters from the 1960s to the present"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803278713

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9780803278714

Hoover vs. Roosevelt

Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

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Hoover the Fishing President

Portrait of the Private Man and His Adventurous Life Outdoors

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Hope

A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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Hope

A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints

By: Hal Elliott Wert

Winner, Benjamin Franklin Award™ (Independent Book Publishers Association), Political/Current Events category In Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Elliott Wert unveils one of the largest Barack Obama campaign poster collections in existence. This is a collection to be treasured by everyone who was inspired and mobilized by the Obama campaign. Among the unique features of this landmark book: More than 170 posters from Hal Wert’s personal collection A Catalog of Posters and Prints with background information on each featured piece The social and political context of the Obama poster movement and its place in the history of American presidential campaign art Foreword by Ray Noland, the street artist credited with starting the nationwide guerrilla poster movement in support of Obama The interior of the dust jacket folds out into a full-color reproduction of artist David Choe’s Hope poster A portion of this book’s proceeds fund the National Art Education Association.

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Zenith Press

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076033787X

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9780760337875

George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents

The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years

By: Hal Elliott Wert

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The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years

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Compilation of political posters from the 1960s to the present"--

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