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Author talks Oval Office ordeal
News · May 12, 2016


Author Charles Rappleye of the newly released biography, “Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency,” will speak at the Hoover Museum on Saturday, May 21 at 2 p.m.


Rappleye’s surprising portrait of Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual Hoover, engaged and active but loathe to experiment and conscious of his inability to convey hope to the country.

The 31st president faced an uphill battle in the face of the Great Depression and many historians dismiss him as ineffective. But in “Herbert Hoover in the White House,” Charles Rappleye draws on rare and intimate sources to reveal a very different figure than the one often portrayed.

Herbert Hoover in the White House is an object lesson in the most, and perhaps only, talent needed to be a successful president-the temperament of leadership.

Rappleye is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor. He has written extensively on media, law enforcement and organized crime.

The Hoover Museum is located in West Branch, Iowa 1/4 mile off I-80 at Exit 254. For more information visit the website at www.hoover.archives.gov or call 319-643-5301.