My recent biography of Iowa native Herbert Hoover, "Herbert Hoover: A Life," is an attempt to uplift his reputation from the dustbin of history into the stratosphere of great Americans. Born in the ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding. Hoover was ...

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte (Knopf, $35). Wise historians know better than to pigeonhole notable figures--things are often just too complex--and with no ...

Happy birthday to the only Iowa native to become President of the United States! Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), the 31st president, was born in West Branch August 10, 1874. Flanked by two Omaha ...

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s ...