Charles Rappleye talked about his book [Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency], in which he recalls the tenure of America's 31st President Herbert Hoover.

HERBERT HOOVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE: THE ORDEAL OF THE PRESIDENCY By Charles Rappleye Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 576 pages Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president, confuses more historians than he ...

Charles Rappleye fleshes out the standard picture of Hoover by using a greater array of primary sources – newspaper accounts, government documents, private diaries – than any previous account.

Herbert Hoover entered the White House with an array of high-profile experiences leading disaster relief. So why was his handling of the Great Depression considered a failure? Biographer Charles ...

President Herbert Hoover is wearing a two-tone V-neck sweater, black pants and white shoes. A colleague is wearing knickers. The lanky interior secretary, Ray Lyman Wilbur, is there, along with ...

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum announced this week that it had old reels of the 31st president's family — Hoover on a fishing trip prior to his inauguration, his grandchildren ...

The answer was Herbert Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce who was elected president in 1928. Robert Murff begged to differ. He's with the RAF at the U.S. Air Force base in Alconbury, England.

Jared Cohen, bestselling author, reveals the full life of President Herbert Hoover, who accomplished a great deal in his post-White House years — far beyond the Great Depression and "Hoovervilles." ...

Herbert Hoover served as America's 31st president. The republican took control of the White House in 1928 but was defeated when he ran for a second term in 1932.(Getty Images) ...