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...Herbert Hoover-Macmillan...
...felt few vibrations from life on the great outside-one of the few was the assassination of President Garfield. The flag was lowered to half-staff over the town's main store and people talked in hushes as Garfield lay dying. "It was thus," writes Herbert Hoover, "that I learned that some great man was at the helm of our country...
...Dirty Mountains. Between 1915 and 1924, before he stepped to the helm himself, Herbert Hoover composed this first volume of his memoirs. He tells, in a style as stiff and formal as the old Hoover collar and without much seeming premonition of the momentous events still before him, of his first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...
...world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...
...realize it at the moment but ... I was [then] on the slippery road of public life." Out of that grew Belgian Relief, and out of that the great Hoover relief & reconstruction program after the war. Refusing always to take a penny for salary or expenses, he fed and helped mend the lives of millions of Europeans, fought the European Allies' attempts to use food as a political lever (Winston Churchill's Admiralty strongly suggested to the Foreign Office that Hoover was spying for the Germans). Before Americans had come to know the stolid, moonfaced man in the high...