The “Great Humanitarian”: Herbert Hoover, the Relief of Belgium, and the Reconstruction of Europe after War I
On August 10, 1914, Herbert Hoover turned forty years old. A prosperous American mining engineer living in London, he was at the pinnacle of his profession, with business interests on every continent except Antarctica. He was also restless, confiding to a friend that “just making money isn't en...
| Published in: | The Tocqueville Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ttr.38.2.55 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ttr.38.2.55 |
| Summary: | On August 10, 1914, Herbert Hoover turned forty years old. A prosperous American mining engineer living in London, he was at the pinnacle of his profession, with business interests on every continent except Antarctica. He was also restless, confiding to a friend that “just making money isn't enough.” He wanted, he said, to “get in the big game somewhere”—the “big game” of public life. |
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