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Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret Hist...more
Hardcover, 1080 pages
Published
November 7th 2011
by Hoover Institution Press
(first published July 15th 2011)
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This is a very entertaining book. While Hoover presents his case that war never should have come to the USA, some of his writing is rather deceptive.
Ch 41 really bother me. Hoover mentions Pearl Harbor, the date the USA declared war on Japan and the date the USA declared war on Germany. But he left out a key date, Germany declared war on the USA before we declared war on Germany. He also presents counts for Allied naval ships sunk by July 1942 yet there is NO mention of Midway and he says the J...more
Ch 41 really bother me. Hoover mentions Pearl Harbor, the date the USA declared war on Japan and the date the USA declared war on Germany. But he left out a key date, Germany declared war on the USA before we declared war on Germany. He also presents counts for Allied naval ships sunk by July 1942 yet there is NO mention of Midway and he says the J...more
If you want an alternate (revisionist) view of the run up to WWII, and the debris that came in its wake, you'll find this book worth the effort -- if only to get Hoover's take on things, circa the early '60's.
Hoover was raised a Quaker, and his anti-war instincts serve him well in this, his magnum opus (the term he used to described this effort). The book is meant to supply 11 theses (from document 8 in the appendix):
1. War between Germany and Russia was inevitable.
2. Hitler's attack on Western...more
Hoover was raised a Quaker, and his anti-war instincts serve him well in this, his magnum opus (the term he used to described this effort). The book is meant to supply 11 theses (from document 8 in the appendix):
1. War between Germany and Russia was inevitable.
2. Hitler's attack on Western...more
Oh my goodness, why does it cost so much?!!! Lot's of money for a book that was written 50 years ago.
Written by Hoover himself.
Heard about it on http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwel...
Written by Hoover himself.
Heard about it on http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwel...
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