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 known as the Italian Minister of Finance from 1932 to 1935 and a vocal supporter of Benito Mussolini. His Italian family were wealthy Orthodox … Continue reading Guido Jung, Italian Minister of Finance, on FDR and Hitler| 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
Stone Plate Engraving of the Declaration of Independence, National Archives and Records Administration By Thomas F. Schwartz “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal…| Hoover Heads
By Thomas F. Schwartz Continued from part 1… As the title suggests, This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue by Zachary Shore examines three episodes of American actions during the WWII period that were motivated by in part by vengeance but eventually turned into more virtuous behavior. The three episodes … Continue reading Germany and the Morgenthau Plan: Part Two| Hoover Heads
Ida Koverman By Thomas F. Schwartz A previous blog post discussed the role of Ida R. Koverman with Herbert Hoover. During the 1928 presidential campaign, Koverman was on the editorial board of the …| Hoover Heads
