American Non-Fiction Outdoors Writers; Herbert Hoover, Bill Bryson, Ernest Thompson Seton, David Brower, Ralph W 'Bud' Leavitt Jr

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Herbert Hoover, Bill Bryson, Ernest Thompson Seton, David Brower, Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr., Grits Gresham, Pete Trabucco, Jon Krakauer, Cork Graham, Conrad Anker, Francis Tapon, Edward LaChapelle, Horace Kephart, Euell Gibbons, Thomas J. Farnham, Donald Hamilton, Harvey Manning, Rick Rydell, John Long, Robert Forrest Burgess, T. A. Barron, Daniel Doan, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Beck Weathers, George W. Sears, Ivan Doig, Donovan Webster, Frosty Wooldridge, Myron Avery, Ira Spring. Excerpt: Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization." In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank. America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. Hoover, a trained engineer, deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement, which held that government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, none of which produced economic recovery during his te...