I must confess to knowing very little about Herbert Hoover before opening this book, that is, apart from his undeserved reputation as the man who failed to hold back the flood of the Great Depression . As I learn more about him my admiration for him as a great humanitarian and dynamo of energy grows proportionately. Although less than a third of the way through this book, it is already shaping up as a classic of revisionist history of WW2 and its aftermath to rank alongside the work of David Irving and Pat Buchanan (... The unnecessary war) and other leaders in this genre. The major difference of course being that Hoover did it much earlier and was directly and personally involved in that history. It is very well written, parts of it beautifully so.