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The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917, by George H. Nash (Norton, 497 pp., $25)

George H. Nash, after producing a brilliant survey of conservative thought in America since 1945, began his comprehensive study of Herbert Hoover (a projected five or six volumes) with a chronicle of the first forty years of Herbert Hoover’s life. He has now given us the second volume in the set, a sterling account of Hoover’s work as wartime relief administrator, 1914-1917. Graceful enough as a stylist to carry a heavy burden of detail, Nash draws judiciously on a wide array of source material from Belgium, Britain, and the United States.

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The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917, by George H. Nash (Norton, 497 pp., $25)

George H. Nash, after producing a brilliant survey of conservative thought in America since 1945, began his comprehensive study of Herbert Hoover (a projected five or six volumes) with a chronicle of the first forty years of Herbert Hoover’s life. He has now given us the second volume in the set, a sterling account of Hoover’s work as wartime relief administrator, 1914-1917. Graceful enough as a stylist to carry a heavy burden of detail, Nash draws judiciously on a wide array of source material from Belgium, Britain, and the United States.