Herbert Hoover: A Biography (The Library of the Presidents)

xii, 444 pp. 8vo. Original light brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. 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.