Description: Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career--and, 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, most of all, his unrelenting "crusade against collectivism" in American life. Rescued from obscurity, this nearly forgotten manuscript is published here--and its contents made available to scholars--for the first time.
Review Quotes: "The meticulous editing of George H. Nash, the dean of Hoover scholars, adds value to Hoover's own work. Nash clarifies, confirms, amplifies, excises, and explains, with impeccable judgment, letting Hoover speak, but elucidating language and obscure references." --Glen Jeansonne, Annals of Iowa