Includes Bibliography

I. Child of the American West --
II. Quaker Boyhood --
III. Student at Stanford --
IV. Australian Gold --
V. Adventure in China --
VI. The Great Engineer --
VII. Hoover Chooses Public Service --
VIII. The Belgian Relief --
IX. Food for Victory --
X. Crusade against Chaos --
XI. Salvaging a Continent --
XII. Back Home from Europe --
XIII. An Old-style Liberal --
XIV. Consulting Engineer to the Nation --
XV. 1928: Nomination and Campaign --
XVI. "No Politician" --
XVII. Paradox of Personality --
XVIII. Boom into Bust --
XIX. Constructive Labors --
XX. The Bib Smear --
XXI. The "Republican New Deal" --
XXII. Grappling with Calamity --
XXIII. In the Valley of Shadows --
XXIV. Direct Relief --
XXV. 1932: Hoover is Defeated --
XXVI. Interregnum --
and Panic --
XXVII. Scapegoat for Cataclysm --
XXVIII. Critique of the New Deal --
XXIX. Another World War --
XXX. The Tide of Slander Recedes --
XXXI. Fighting Another World Famine --
XXXII. Reform of Government Operations --
XXXIII. The Time of Vindication --
XXXIV. The "Elder Statesman" --
XXXV. The Ninth Decade.

The first President to come from west of the Mississippi was born into a poor Quaker family and early orphaned. After working his way through Stanford University, Herbert Hoover got his first job as a common miner, at $2.50 for a ten hour day.