The Best Biographies of Herbert Hoover

February 7, 2016

[Updated Dec 2020] The unfavorable but vaguely-formed image of Herbert Hoover I’ve retained for three decades (since my last American …

Review of “Herbert Hoover: A Biography” by Eugene Lyons

February 2, 2016

First published in 1947, Eugene Lyons’s “Herbert Hoover: A Biography” was updated and republished in 1964 shortly after Hoover’s death. …

January 12, 2016

Prior to my journey through the best presidential biographies, Herbert Hoover and I had never met. I don’t mean in …