All first editions, first printings, as stated on copyright page. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt replica signature from author on front panel. The Detroit faithful and radio audiences heard Hoover hail ten sure signs of “economic recovery.” (Less enthusiastic were hundreds of unemployed men who greeted him at the train station with signs like “Hoover-Baloney and Apple Sauce. A first edition, first printing of the Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, signed by former President Herbert Hoover, in fine dust jackets. In this excerpt from an October 22, 1932, campaign speech on “The Success of Recovery,” Hoover told a partisan crowd of twenty-two thousand in Detroit’s Olympia Arena that success would have come even sooner if not for Democratic obstruction. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and. To win reelection in 1932, he would have to convince voters that his policies were bringing recovery. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. The president’s efforts to reassure the public did not stop, in part for political reasons. Herbert Hoovers Own Story THE MEMOIRS OF HERBERT HOOVER: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933. The next day President Herbert Hoover counseled reassurance, but as stock prices continued to plummet Hoover’s reassurances rang increasingly hollow. Prices recovered somewhat that afternoon, but the Great Crash was underway. "On the morning of Octo(“Black Thursday”), billions of dollars in stock value were wiped out before lunch.
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