The 31st president, Herbert Hoover, was an Iowa native who had the misfortune to be in the White House when the stock market crashed in 1929. He presided over the Great Depression's early years before losing his reelection bid to FDR in 1932. An engineer by profession, Hoover directed WWI-era humanitarian aid to Europe and served as Secretary of Commerce under presidents Hardin...$最早了解胡佛是在初中的歷史課,講到大蕭條時除了倒牛奶,還有一句“胡佛往地獄裡衝”;下一次看到這個名字就是幾個月前觀看過的,關於胡佛ARA人道主義救濟署救助21年蘇聯饑荒的紀錄片。這回是第三次。早年的人道主義救援經歷和商業方面的行政經歷讓他在28年選舉時大勝,但隨之而來的大衰敗卻因政府干預不力升級成大蕭條。胡佛堅持不干預的經濟和社會政策,認為人們之間可以靠某種互相援助渡過難關,這讓我稍有不解——如果...