The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian 1914-1917 (Life of Herbert Hoover Vol. 2)

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It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history with his efforts in the Commission of Relief in Belgium. This side of Hoover is the focus of Nashs comprehensive volume. At the outbreak of World War I Hoover was a wealthy mining engineer living in London. In a short time he became the founder and brilliant director of an unprecedented international relief organization which provided desperately needed food to more than 9 000 000 Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. By 1919 when his Commission for Relief in Belgium closed its operations it had expended nearly $1 billionand had created a twentieth century hero. By then Hoover had embarked on the "slippery road of public life " which eventually led him to the White House door. This bookbased on research conducted on three continentsis the second volume of Dr. Nashs definitive account of Hoovers life.