Curriculum Guides for Education

HERBERT HOOVER and LOU HENRY HOOVER: Reading List

Recommended Reading for Students:

Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 341 pp, suitable for junior high to adult.

Clinton, Susan. Encyclopedia of Presidents - Herbert Hoover. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988. 98 pp, suitable for elementary students.

Colbert, Nancy A. Lou Henry Hoover: The Duty to Serve. Morgan Reynolds Incorporated, 1998. 103 pp, suitable for upper elementary and junior high students.

Emery, Ann. American Friend: Herbert Hoover. New York: Rand McNally & Company, Inc., 1967. 232 pp, suitable upper elementary.

Hilton, Suzanne. The World of Young Herbert Hoover. New York: Walker & Company, 1988. 94 pp, suitable for younger children or reading aloud.

Holford, David M. Herbert Hoover. Enslow Publishers, Inc. 1999, 126 pp. United States Presidents series; suitable for upper elementary and junior high students.

Hoover, Herbert. On Growing Up: Letter to American Boys and Girls. William Morrow & Company, 1962. 160 pp, Mr. Hoover's letters from and to American children.

McGee, Dorothy Horton. Herbert Hoover: Engineer, Humanitarian, Statesman. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965. 317 pp, 5th grade to adult.

Peare, Catherine Owens. The Herbert Hoover Story. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965. 247 pp, 5th grade to adult.

Recommended Reading for Teachers:

Fausold, Martin. The Presidency of Herbert Hoover. University of Kansas Press, 1984. 288 pp, scholarly assessment of the Hoover administration.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover (The Engineer, 1874-1914). W.W. Norton & Company, 1983. 579 pp, first volume of a definitive biography; covers early years of Hoover's life before he entered public service - suitable for high school to adult.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover (The Humanitarian, 1914-1917). W.W. Norton & Company, 1988. 382 pp, second volume in series; covers the remarkable famine relief efforts of Hoover - suitable for high school to adult.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover (Master of Emergencies, 1917-1918). W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. 510 pp, third volume in series; covers Herbert Hoover as head of the U.S. Food Administration - suitable for high school to adult.

Robinson, Edgar Eugene, & Bornet, Vaughn D. Herbert Hoover: President of the United States. Hoover Institution Press, 1975. 299 pp, suitable for high school to adult.

Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 431 pp, very readable account of Hoover's life, suitable for high school to adult.

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