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American Presidents

Herbert Hoover’s professional and political careers were marked by astonishing successes, yet he is remembered most for his one great failure. 

Hoover’s humanitarian efforts helped feed eight million Belgians threatened with starvation during WWI, and after the war he led the rebuild of Europe’s devastated economy.

As Secretary of Commerce, Hoover laid the groundwork for America’s commercial aviation industry and for the development of the American southwest.

As a result of the widespread respect he’d earned across the country, Hoover won the 1928 presidential election in a landslide.

Hoover made far more progress in limiting the Great Depression’s damage than is generally recognized.

Hoover’s personal pitfalls, the political shrewdness of Franklin Roosevelt, and the issue of Prohibition led to Hoover’s decisive defeat in 1932.

Hoover dedicated his post-presidential life to writing books, managing charities and overseeing the conservative think tank he founded, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, succeeded at almost everything he did. Yet he is best remembered for one failure: the Great Depression. Is that legacy justified? Historian Kenneth Whyte examines the evidence.

Herbert Hoover: Success or Failure?

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