Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
by Benjamin M. Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
In 1921 one of the most devastating famines in history threatened the lives of millions of Russians as well as the continuance of Soviet rule. Responding to a plea for help from the Soviet government, the American Relief Administration (ARA) agreed to provide famine relief in the stricken areas. The...
American Exceptionalism in a New Era
Rebuilding the Foundation of Freedom and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In American Exceptionalism in a New Era, editor Thomas W. Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution, has compiled thirteen essays by Hoover fellows that discuss the unique factors that have historically set America apart from other nations and how these factors shape public policy. The authors...
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
Reykjavik Revisited
Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Complete Report of 2007 Hoover Institution Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from presentations made at the Hoover Institution's October 2007 conference, this collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and to move toward the Reykjavik goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons. The distinguished...
A Memoir of the Missile Age
One Man's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary power. How can we balance the central bank's authority and independence with needed accountability and constraints? Drawn from a 2015 Hoover...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In The Structural Foundations of Monetary Policy, Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and Amit Seru bring together discussions and presentations from the Hoover Institution's annual monetary policy conference. The conference participants discuss long-run monetary issues facing the world economy, with...
Distributed Power in the United States
Prospects and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Scholars from the Brookings Institution's Energy Security Initiative and the Hoover Institution's Task Force on Energy Policy offer recommendations for ensuring the security and sustainability of our electricity system now and for future generations through the greater deployment of distributed power...
Moscow has Ears Everywhere
New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how Pasternak's expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union left him in financial difficulty. After Pasternak's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The American ability to inspire—which we call exceptionalism—is not automatic. It takes continued efforts to be realized in a changing world. In this book, scholars at the Hoover Institution—professors, thinkers, and practitioners of global renown in their respective fields—offer a series...
NAFTA at 20
The North American Free Trade Agreement's Achievements and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was bold and controversial from the start. When first conceived, it was far from obvious that it would be possible given the circumstances of the times. Drawing from a December 2013 Hoover Institution conference on "NAFTA at 20," this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Drawing from their 2018 conference, the Hoover Institution brings together leading academics and monetary policy makers to share ideas about the practical issues facing central banks today. The expert contributors discuss U.S. monetary policy at individual central banks and reform of the international...
The Crusade Years, 1933–1955
Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover's career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—this previously unknown memoir was composed and revised by the 31st president during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside. This work recounts Hoover's...
Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin
The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin's most prominent victims: Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.