CONTENTS

Cover

Also by Kenneth Whyte

Title Page

Copyright

PREFACE

BOOK I
CHAPTER 1
“A Pretty Stiff Time”
CHAPTER 2
“A Whole Jug Full of Experience”
CHAPTER 3
“I Am the Devil”
CHAPTER 4
The Adventures of Hu-hua and Hoo Loo
CHAPTER 5
“The Late Jar Rather Smashed My Nerves”
CHAPTER 6
What Lies Beyond Wealth
BOOK II
CHAPTER 7
“Hard to State Without Becoming Hysterical”
CHAPTER 8
A Pirate State Organized for Benevolence
CHAPTER 9
Make Way for the Almoner of Starving Belgium
CHAPTER 10
A Hero in the House of Truth
CHAPTER 11
Inconsolable in the Hall of Mirrors
BOOK III
CHAPTER 12
An Engineer at the Opera
CHAPTER 13
Meddling with God’s Economy
CHAPTER 14
Hoover Versus a Botched Civilization
CHAPTER 15
Scandal, Embarrassment, and the Little Feller
CHAPTER 16
Sleepless in Good Times
CHAPTER 17
“The Wonder Boy”
BOOK IV
CHAPTER 18
“Giving Genius Its Chance”
CHAPTER 19
“He Didn’t Know Where the Votes Came From”
CHAPTER 20
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
CHAPTER 21
Just When We Thought It Was Over
CHAPTER 22
“It Seemed Like the End of the World”
CHAPTER 23
The President in His Fighting Clothes
CHAPTER 24
“A Human Creature Desperately Hurt and Pained”
BOOK V
CHAPTER 25
Through the Abyss in a Buick
CHAPTER 26
Father of the New Conservatism
CHAPTER 27
Reborn in a Darker World
EPILOGUE
“I Admire a Lot in Hoover’s Career”

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Photography Credits

A Note about the Author

Illustrations