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President Eisenhower's endearing attachment to the notion that there should be a Hoover in every White House explains much of the virginal optimism and defunct conservatism emanating from Washington. A recession, however is not a Phoenix generating its own resurrection, and wishful thinking is often an admission that the wells of wisdom have been filled with poverty-stricken nostalgia...
...stowed between the covers of a single stout volume. One reason is that few Presidents have been up to it or have had the time for it. Another, possibly more important, is a guild sympathy-a reluctance to trespass on another man's ordeal. At 83, Herbert Hoover trespasses only to bear gifts, and he crosses party lines to do it. In The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, he gives a generous salute to an idealist whose tragedy was quite simply that he did not live in an ideal world...
Hard Facts. Ordeal is not a biography. Hoover deals only with the years 1915-1921, when Woodrow Wilson in his Presbyterian rectitude dreamed a new world of peace and good will but never awoke to the fact that he was dreaming. The hard facts of reality are supplied by Hoover, whose own files on World War I contain more than 1,500,000 items. His own role in that period was enormous, though widely obscured since then by his role in the era of Hoovervilles. He was not only the man who fed hungry Europe during and after...
...keeping with his engineer's temperament, Hoover's book is essentially a documentation, a blueprint of the Wilsonian ordeal. He shows in detail how Wilson captured the imagination of a war-shocked world with the promise of a just peace and a League of Nations to tidy up the international madhouse. He then shows how Old World hatreds and greeds, together with home-grown suspicions, turned Wilson's dream into a patchwork of drab compromise...
...Herbert Hoover, four decades later, stoutly defends his chief against what he believes was European cynicism, a failure of generosity and political imagination. Even now he tends to find saintliness where others might have seen ingenuousness. His book is at once the profoundly loyal tribute of an admiring subordinate and a compassionate judgment of one U.S. President by the most harshly judged U.S. President of modern times...