Herbert Hoover

Writing biographies of Herbert Hoover has again become a cottage industry. The first important wave of Hoover scholarship was published in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with Joan Hoff Wilson (Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive, 1975), David Burner (Herbert Hoover: A Public Life, 1979), George H. Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, 3 vols., 1983–), and Gary Dean Best (Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years, 1983) authoring some of the most important books. Another outpouring of Hoover literature, including more work by Best (The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 2013) and by Kendrick A. Clements (Hoover, Conservation, Consumerism, 2000; The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 2010), has occurred in the early twenty-first century. Much of this recent work has been researched and written by scholars from the same generation as those who produced the earlier books. As such, few new historiographical or methodological interventions exist; instead, books such as Glen Jeansonne's Herbert Hoover take advantage of the maturation of Hoover scholarship to synthesize not only the vast biographical literature but also the countless monographs about the Hoover era while also judiciously and thoroughly mining the archives

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