Herbert Hoover &the Great Depression
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Robert Putnam, The Upswing
“He is truly a wonder, andI wish we could make him President.There couldn’t be a better one.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt1929
Standard Picture
SecretaryofCommerce
Annie slide?
West Branch, IA
independencehard workcommunity service
“The Great Humanitarian”
“The Great Engineer”
“Hoover-ize”
Economic Philosophy
Government =promoter of solutions
Government ≠legislator of solutions
“The right manat the wrong time?”1928
Response?
Tax cut
Fed loan policy
Boulder dam? pic$800 million
POURPresident’s Organization onUnemployment Relief
Federal FarmMarketing Bd
ReconstructionFinance Corp.
Urbana Daily Courier, 1/18/32, p.1
Home Loan Bank Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Federal Farm Marketing Bd
“Hoover-villes”
“Hoover blankets”
“Hoover flags”
Impact
Working Class Americans
Young Americans
Older Americans
Black Americans
African-Americans
Middle class“Shame, shame, shame”
Mothers
Drums Along the Mohawk
Will Rogers, “Homeville”
Gangster films1930
1931
Gangster films1932
1933
1935