Herbert Hoover: A Biography

xii, 468 pp. 8vo. A biography of the 31st President of the United States, whose presidency is most often characterized by the failure to achieve recovery from the Great Depression of 1929. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eugene Lyons (1 July 1898–7 January 1985) was a U.S. journalist and writer. At one time a Communist fellow-traveler, he became highly critical of the Soviet Union after he lived there for several years.