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...

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Published in:The Tocqueville Review
Main Author: Nash, George H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2017
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Sociology and Political Science
History
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