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LANDSLIDE


A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover

The film premieres nationwide on PBS on MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 - 10:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME, 9:00 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.

Reading and Reference List


The producers at The Duncan Group consulted numerous books and articles during the research and production process for the public television documentary LANDSLIDE – A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover
Some of the titles are listed below. 

Books Authored by Herbert Hoover

Hoover, Herbert. American Individualism New York: Cosimo Classics. Originally published by Double Day, Page & Company, 1922.

Hoover, Herbert, C. A Boyhood in Iowa. New York, NY: Aventine Press, 1931.

Hoover, Herbert C. The Challenge to Liberty, 1934

Hoover, Herbert C. Addresses Upon The American Road, 1933-1938, 1938

Hoover, Herbert C. Addresses Upon The American Road, 1940-41, (1941)

Hoover, Herbert C. The Problems of Lasting Peace, with Hugh Gibson, 1942

Hoover, Herbert, C. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. 3 vols; v. 1. Years of adventure, 1874–1920; v. 2. The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920–1933; v. 3. The Great Depression, 1929–1941.

New York, NY: Macmillan Co., 1951-1952.

Biographical Texts

Best, Gary Dean. Herbert Hoover: The Post Presidential Years, 1933-1964. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1983.

Best, Gary Dean. The Politics of American Individualism: Herbert Hoover in Transition, 1918-1921. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Fausold, Martin L. The Presidency of Herbert Hoover Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1985.

Hatfield, Mark O., ed. Herbert Hoover Reassessed: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of our Thirty-First President. Washington, DC:  United States Government Printing Office, 1981.

Lloyd, Craig. Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912-1932. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover. 3 vols. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983-1988.

Nash, Lee, ed. Understanding Herbert Hoover: Ten Perspectives. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1987.

Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1984.

Walch, Timothy. ed. Uncommon Americans: The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henri Hoover. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975.

Additional Books & Articles Related to Depression Era

Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.  New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2006.

Barber, William. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Bernstein, Michael A. The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservatism, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. Lawrence, KS:  University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Daniels, Roger. The Bonus March: An Episode of the Great Depression. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1971.

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

Fearon, Peter. War, Prosperity, and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Friedman, Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. The Great Contraction, 1929-1933. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash. 1929. rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.

Garraty, John A. The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in the Light of History. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.

Kennedy, David M. The American People in the Great Depression, Freedom from Fear: Part I. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1999

Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression, 1929-1939. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973.

Klingaman, William K. 1929: The Year of the Great Crash. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Liebovich, Louis. Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1994.

Lisio, Donald J. The President and Protest: Hoover, Conspiracy and the Bonus Riot. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974.

Olson, James Stuart. Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1931-1933. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1977.

Poppendieck, Janet. Breadline Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Potter, Jim. The American Economy between the World Wars. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974.

Rosen, Elliot A. Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust: From Depression to New Deal. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

Singleton, Jeff. The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Sobel, Robert. Herbert Hoover at the Onset of the Great Depression, 1929-1930. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1975.

Watkins, T.H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

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