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Investigate the story of the nation's 31st president and his remarkable life
before, during and after his time in the White House.
Herbert Hoover was a politician and a humanitarian whose legacy has
been largely defined by the Great Depression. When he was elected
president in a landslide victory in 1928, Hoover had never before
held public office. Yet his remarkable humanitarian work and career
as a mining engineer, businessman and U.S. Secretary of Commerce
carried him to office. When the stock market crashed on October 29,
1929, Hoover's agenda was derailed by the worsening economic
crisis. Despite various efforts to pull the nation out of
depression, Hoover's unsuccessful attempts led to his sound defeat
by Franklin Roosevelt just four years after his landslide victory.
HERBERT HOOVER: LANDSLIDE looks at the life of the controversial
figure through interviews with notable historians and Hoover
scholars.