By Thomas F. Schwartz The corruption of language to promote a political agenda has been debated throughout history. The most memorable illustration is George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 using the term “double speak” to criticize authoritarian regimes. Hoover frequently complained about the how the term “liberalism” went from its nineteenth century usage of someone who … Continue reading Hoover on Liberalism| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz It is now commonplace for incoming presidential administrations to release books outlining their new vision. Because they are written for political partisans, the writings are celebrated or mocked according to one’s political bent. Lewis Strauss forwarded Herbert Hoover an advance copy of Franklin Roosevelt’s Looking Forward on March 29, 1933, with … Continue reading Reviews of New Deal books| Hoover Heads
William F. Buckley, Jr., Oct. 27, 1960. Photo 31-1960-c45 By Thomas F. Schwartz Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. has prompted mixed reviews from conservative commentators wh…| Hoover Heads
Italian finance minister Guido Jung arrives for conference with President Roosevelt. ACME photo 5/2/1933 By Thomas F. Schwartz Guido Jung is not a name that brings immediate recognition. He is best…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Click here for part 1 and for part 2 The question of who was filling in the blanks from the sketchy notes left behind by Irwin “Ike” Hoover was a topic of great co…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Click here for Part 1 Most accounts in Ike Hoover’s Forty-Two Years in the White House are positive with certain caveats. Newspaper editor William Allen White who authored the popular early biography of Calvin Coolidge, A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge (1938), offered mixed judgments on Ike Hoover … Continue reading The Mystery of Irwin Hood Hoover’s Forty-Two Years in the White House: Part 2| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Memoirs by former presidential staff and White House employees can offer candid assessments of the public officials’ private lives. They can also be extremely misleading, refl…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz In Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath edited by George H. Nash, Hoover entitles a section “Brainwashing the American P…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005)Library of Congress digital ID hec.12925 After relying on the detailed Siberian travelogue of George Kennan to determin…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Journalist and explorer George Kennan (1845-1924) Library of Congress digital ID ppmsc.01361 George F. Kennan is known for writing the 1946 “long telegram” as…| Hoover Heads
