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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
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
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