In What Ways Did Herbert Hoover, in His Actions as Secretary

question 45

Essay

In what ways did Herbert Hoover, in his actions as Secretary of Commerce and as president, combine the values and beliefs of an older, traditional nineteenth-century America with the experience and the outlook of the modern corporate economy? Why was President Hoover's decision to maintain many of his traditional nineteenth-century American values prove to be problematic when the cataclysmic depression had become a national calamity by 1930? How was Hoover's business experience and acumen helpful and/or limiting in his efforts as president to battle the Great Depression?

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