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- Title
Herbert Hoover.
- Authors
Murray, Lawrence L.
- Abstract
The article reviews video recording of interview of U.S. ex-president Herbert Hoover. The production appears to have been a futile effort to continue the Quaker president's personal efforts to rehabilitate his image in history begun with his memoirs in the early 1950's. The interviewer is inept as he fails to profile vital issues, and Hoover speaks in the same ponderous and obfuscating way he did in the White House. Boredom sets in very quickly and the students turn off. Most of the footage is devoted to Hoover's successes (like his career as a mining engineer and his coordination of efforts to feed Europe after two world wars), while his years in the White House are virtually ignored. Comparison and contrast with the historiography of the man and his era is rendered impossible because of the glaring omissions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; PRESIDENTS of the United States; TELEVISION program reviews; AUDIOVISUAL materials; VIDEOS
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1975, Vol 5, Issue 2, p22
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Entertainment Review