Joan Hoff, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (Boston, 1975) Clements, The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928 (New York, 2010)ĭavid Burner, Herbert Hoover: A Public Life (New York, 1979) Nash, The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer, 1874–1914 (New York, 1983) This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. He disliked European aristocracy and elitism, and he found the poverty he observed appalling. Although cosmopolitan, Hoover was thoroughly American in his practicality and disdain for pretense.
Fifty years later, Hoover could describe in detail his experience during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The Hoovers capaciously absorbed what they saw abroad. And beginning with China, he had an accomplished traveling companion in his wife Lou, a woman of insatiable curiosity and tireless endurance who learned to speak five languages. Before arriving, Hoover read prodigiously about local history, customs, and geography.
The engineer was at home on camel, horseback, mule, automobile, bicycle, and boat, in the Australian outback, unexplored sections of China and Burma seldom visited by foreigners, remote stretches of Siberia, Japan, the frozen Arctic, and the Mediterranean rim. Neither did he confine his visits to capital cities or major trade centers. In his work as an engineer he traversed Australia, China, Siberia, Canada, South Africa, much of Latin America, the Middle East, Burma, Mongolia, and-with the exception of equatorial Africa, traveled widely on every inhabitable continent. By the end of World War I he had visited every nation in Europe, including the new ones carved out of the German, Hapsburg, Turkish, and Russian empires. Although John Quincy Adams was well traveled for his time, it is unlikely that any president before the age of jet travel lived and worked abroad as much as Hoover before reaching the White House.
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