Herbert Hoover: A Public Life
New York: Knopf, 1979, c1978. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 433, illus., bibliography, index, slight edge soiling, slight wear and soiling to boards. More
New York: Knopf, 1979, c1978. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 433, illus., bibliography, index, slight edge soiling, slight wear and soiling to boards. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 295, illus., bibliography, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 295, [6] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. David Burner was professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and founder of the Brandywine Press. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965. His first monograph—The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition, 1918–32—enjoyed a warm reception in the scholarly community. His biography Herbert Hoover: A Public Life became the most important contribution to the rehabilitation of the former president’s reputation. Burner viewed him as a more activist president than his GOP predecessors during the 1920s and anything but a laissez-faire purist. In 1997 the Princeton University Press published his Making Peace with the Sixties, a re-examination of the tumultuous decade. One reviewer wrote, “For Burner, the history of the 1960s is the history of the breaking apart of the liberal mentality, particularly with reference to the two intersecting mass actions of the decade, the civil rights and anti-war movements.” To understand that breakup, Burner “examines forces of the era that might have been allies but succeeded in becoming enemies: a civil rights movement that severed into integrationist and black-separatist; a social left and a mainline liberalism that lost a common vocabulary even for arguing with each other; an anti-war activism that divided between advocates of peace and advocates of totalitarian Hanoi.”. More