Herbert Hoover and World Peace

By (author) Lee Nash

Publication date:

09 June 2010

Length of book:

180 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761851974

Herbert Hoover and World Peace summarizes Hoover's career-long efforts to preserve peace in the world and to help America avoid unnecessary wars, from his opposition to our entry into World War I to his proposed — and rejected — Cold War strategy, which would have avoided the Vietnam War. Personal experiences in the Boxer Rebellion in China and helping to feed Belgium during World War I, coupled with his early Quaker nurture, that sensitized him to war-related tragedies. These essays illustrate the varied ways in which Hoover expressed and implemented his commitment to world peace, as humanitarian, advisor, cabinet member, president, citizen, and writer. No other president was so consistent and thoughtful on matters of world peace.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Contributors
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. Quaker President Herbert Hoover and American Foreign Policy
Chapter 5 2. Herbert Hoover and the League of Nations
Chapter 6 3. "A Little of the Road to Peace": Herbert Hoover and the World Court
Chapter 7 4. Herbert Hoover and the Struggle for European Economic Recovery in the 1920s
Chapter 8 5. Nonintervention, Nonrecognition, and Food: Herbert Hoover's Russian Policy, 1917-1925
Chapter 9 6. Herbert Hoover's Military Policy
Chapter 10 7. Blessed are the Peacemakers: The Hoover-Gibson Collaboration
Chapter 11 8. Herbert Hoover and the Great Debates Over Foreign Policy, 1940-1941 and 1950-1951

…This collection of essays elaborates on seven aspects of [Hoover's] foreign policy, from support for the League of Nations and the World Court after World War I to his far-sighted suggestions ending the Second World War and avoiding the excesses of the Cold War. It can only be hoped that such views about not becoming the world's policeman and the futility of trying to make 'the world safe for democracy' will be given more deserved attention at the end of the twenty-first century than they have been since the 1940s.