Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979
Hoover Makes a Comeback
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Herbert Hoover: A Public Life
by David Burner
Knopf, 433 pp., $15.95
George W. Norris: The Triumph of a Progressive, 1933-1944
by Richard Lowitt
University of Illinois Press, 493 pp., $20.00
"Young Bob" La Follette: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. 1895-1953
by Patrick J. Maney
University of Missouri Press, 338 pp., $18.00
David Burner's able biography of Herbert Hoover raises anew the ever diverting problem of the fluctuation in historical reputations. For many years Hoover's standing was as low among historians as it had been among voters during the Depression. He was portrayed as the embodiment of the illusions and complacencies of the New Era, a cold, self-righteous president who misconceived the problems of his age and determinedly sacrificed human beings on the altar of dogma.
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