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Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
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Spiro Bolos
May 04, 2023
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Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
Spiro Bolos
May 04, 2023
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Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression
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Robert Putnam, The Upswing
Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression
“He is truly a wonder, and I wish we could
make him President. There couldn’t be a better one.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1929
Standard Picture
Secretary of Commerce
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Annie slide?
Annie slide?
West Branch, IA
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independence hard work community service
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“The Great Humanitarian”
“The Great Engineer”
“Hoover-ize”
Economic Philosophy
Government = promoter of solutions
Government ≠ legislator of solutions
“The right man at the wrong time?” 1928
Response?
Tax cut
Fed loan policy
Boulder dam? pic $800 million
Boulder dam? pic $800 million
POUR President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief
Federal Farm Marketing Bd
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Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Urbana Daily Courier, 1/18/32, p.1
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Home Loan Bank Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Federal Farm Marketing Bd
“Hoover-villes”
“Hoover-villes”
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“Hoover blankets”
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“Hoover flags”
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Impact
Working Class Americans
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Young Americans
Older Americans
Black Americans
Black Americans
Black Americans
African-Americans
Middle class “Shame, shame, shame”
Mothers
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Will Rogers, “Homeville”
Gangster films 1930
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1931
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Gangster films 1932
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1933
1935
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