Description
The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative by William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton, signed by President Herbert Hoover.
Octavo, viii, [2], 553pp, [1]. Blue cloth, title stamped in black. The second printing, without the Scribner’s A on the copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers, wear to blue cloth on the spine. Even toning to leaves throughout. Includes a laid-in compliments card from the author, Walter H. Newton. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $3.50 on the front flap, a few closed tears, pink hue to rear panel, light soiling to covers and verso, a very good example. (Tracey, 46) (Burns, 0469)
Signed on the front free endpaper: “The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover.”
From Burns: “This authorized account tries to vindicate Hoover’s actions in dealing with the depression. He was presented with a unique challenge that has to be appreciated in a more reflective and sober manner than has been assumed by past historians.”
