Hoover complained that his brother and sister abandoned him during these years, too wrapped up in their own families to step forward and help ease their mother’s way. And he resented their absence, the final indignity in a lifetime of being cast as a mama’s boy. Years later, he would point out bitterly that Annie had failed to change her will, distributing her possessions among all three children despite the fact that he alone took charge of caring for her.
