Bibliography of Herbert Hoover

The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States.

Secondary sources

Biographies

• Best, Gary Dean. The Politics of American Individualism: Herbert Hoover in Transition, 1918–1921 (1975)
  • Best, Gary Dean. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 1933–1964. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Burner, David (1979). Herbert Hoover: The Public Life. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-394-46134-2.
• Clements, Kendrick A. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928 (2010).
• Edwards, Barry C. "Putting Hoover on the Map: Was the 31st President a Progressive?." Congress & the Presidency 41#1 (2014) pp 49-83 online
• Fausold, Martin L. (1985). The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0259-9.
• Gelfand, Lawrence E. ed. Herbert Hoover: The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1923 (1979)
• Hatfield, Mark. ed. Herbert Hoover Reassessed (2002)
• Hawley, Ellis. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice (1981).
• Hawley, Ellis (1989), Herbert Hoover and the Historians.
• Jeansonne, Glen. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928–1933. Palgrave Macmillan; 2012.
• Jeansonne, Glen. Herbert Hoover: A Life (2016), 464pp; comprehensive scholarly biography
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (2009). Herbert Hoover. Times Books (Henry Holt and Company). ISBN 978-0-8050-6958-7.
• Lloyd, Craig. Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932 (1973).
• Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer 1874–1914 (1983); in-depth scholarly study
  • ———— (1988), The Humanitarian, 1914–1917, The Life of Herbert Hoover, 2.
  • ———— (1996), Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918, The Life of Herbert Hoover, 3.
• Nash, Lee, ed. Understanding Herbert Hoover: Ten Perspectives (1987); essays by scholars
• Nash, George H. (1983). The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer 1874–1914. W W Norton. ISBN 978-0393016345. Book 1 in The Life of Herbert Hoover Series.
• Rappleye (2016). Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4869-0.
• Smith, Gene. The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1970)
• Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, (1987), biography concentrating on post 1932.
• Walch, Timothy. ed. Uncommon Americans: The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover Praeger, 2003.
• West, Hal Elliott. Hoover, The Fishing President: Portrait of the Man and his Life Outdoors (2005).
• Whyte, Kenneth. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Time (2017). 752pp excerpt
• Wilson, Joan Hoff (1975). Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-94416-8.

Scholarly studies

• Extensive annotated bibliography at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Claus Bernet (2009). "Hoover, Herbert". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in Deutsch). 30. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 644–653. ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6.
• Barber, William J. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933. (1985)
• Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998), Hoover played a major role
• Britten, Thomas A. "Hoover and the Indians: the Case for Continuity in Federal Indian Policy, 1900–1933" Historian 1999 61(3): 518–538. ISSN 0018-2370
• Calder, James D. The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy: Herbert Hoover's Initiatives Praeger, 1993
• Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. University Press of Kansas, 2000
• DeConde, Alexander. Herbert Hoover's Latin American Policy. (1951)
• Dodge, Mark M., ed. Herbert Hoover and the Historians. (1989)
• Doenecke, Justus D. "Anti-Interventionism of Herbert Hoover". Journal of Libertarian Studies, (Summer 1987), 8(2): 311–340
• Fausold Martin L. and George Mazuzan, eds. The Hoover Presidency: A Reappraisal (1974)
• Ferrell, Robert H. (1957). American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover–Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933. Yale University Press.
• Goodman, Mark and Gring, Mark. "The Ideological Fight over Creation of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927" Journalism History 2000 26(3): 117–124
• Hamilton, David E. From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. (1991)
• Hawley, Ellis. "Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an 'Associative State', 1921–1928". Journal of American History, (June 1974) 61(1): 116–140
• Houck, Davis W. "Rhetoric as Currency: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 Stock Market Crash" Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2000 3(2): 155–181. ISSN 1094-8392
• Hutchison, Janet. "Building for Babbitt: the State and the Suburban Home Ideal" Journal of Policy History 1997 9(2): 184–210
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (2009). Herbert Hoover. Times Books (Henry Holt and Company). ISBN 978-0-8050-6958-7.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (Summer 2009). "The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time". American Heritage. 59 (2).
• Lichtman, Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 (1979)
• Lisio, Donald J. The President and Protest: Hoover, MacArthur, and the Bonus Riot, 2d ed. (1994)
• Lisio, Donald J. Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-whites: A Study of Southern Strategies (1985)
• Malin, James C. The United States after the World War. 1930. extensive coverage of Hoover's Commerce Dept. policies
• O'Brien, Patrick G.; Rosen, Philip T. (1981). "Hoover and the Historians: the Resurrection of a President". The Annals of Iowa. 46 (2): 83–99.
• Olson, James S. Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1931–1933 (1977)
• Robinson, Edgar Eugene and Vaughn Davis Bornet. Herbert Hoover: President of the United States. (1976)
• Romasco, Albert U. The Poverty of Abundance: Hoover, the Nation, the Depression (1965)
• Schwarz, Jordan A. The Interregnum of Despair: Hoover, Congress, and the Depression. (1970). Hostile to Hoover
• Sibley, Katherine A.S., ed. A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (2014); 616pp; essays by scholars stressing historiography
• Stoff, Michael B. "Herbert Hoover: 1929–1933". The American Presidency: The Authoritative Reference. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (2004), 332–343
• Sobel, Robert Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression 1929–1930 (1975)
• Tracey, Kathleen. Herbert Hoover–A Bibliography: His Writings and Addresses. (1977)
• Wilbur, Ray Lyman, and Arthur Mastick Hyde. The Hoover Policies. (1937). In depth description of his administration by two cabinet members
• Wueschner, Silvano A. Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917–1927. Greenwood, 1999

Primary sources

• Myers, William Starr; Walter H. Newton, eds. The Hoover Administration; a documented narrative. 1936.
• Hawley, Ellis, ed. Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 4 vols. (1974–1977)
• Hoover, Herbert Clark (1934), The Challenge to Liberty.
• ———————— (1938), Addresses Upon The American Road, 1933–1938.
• ———————— (1941), Addresses Upon The American Road, 1940–41.
• ————————; and Gibson, Hugh (1942), The Problems of Lasting Peace.
• ———————— (1949), Addresses Upon The American Road, 1945–48.
• ———————— (1952a), Years of adventure, 1874–1920 (PDF), Memoirs, 1, New York, archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2008.
• ———————— (1952b), The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920–1933 (PDF), Memoirs, 2, New York, archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2008.
• ———————— (1952c), The Great Depression, 1929–1941 (PDF), Memoirs, 3, New York, archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2008.
• Miller, Dwight M.; Walch, Timothy, eds. (1998), Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History, Contributions in American History, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-30608-2
• Hoover, Herbert Clark (2011), Nash, George H., ed., Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-8179-1234-5.
• Hoover, Herbert Clark (2013), Nash, George H., ed., The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-8179-1674-9.
• American Engineering Council, Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry; Waste in Industry Federated American Engineering Societies, 1921