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1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : Through a long public life and short presidency, Herbert Hoover carefully cultivated reporters and media owners as he rose from a relief administrator to president of the United States. During his service to government, he held the conviction that journalists were to be manipulated and mistrusted. When the nation fell into economic disaster, Hoover's misconceptions about the press and press relations exacerbated a national calamity. This book traces the entire history of Hoover's relationship with magazines, newspapers, newsreel organizations, and radio, and demonstrates how an attitude toward Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index 1. The Unlikely Road to Success -- 2. Secretary of Commerce -- 3. The Campaign and Aftermath of the 1928 Election -- 4. Lost Opportunities -- 5. The Crash -- 6. Radio, Newsreels, Newspapers, and the Presidency -- 7. The Bonus March -- 8. The Dawn of the Roosevelt Era Print version record Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and

Author

Louis W. Liebovich

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Praeger

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313388330

Subjects

Language Learning, History, Business