Hoover Institution Press: 227 books
In Danger Undaunted
The Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940–1941 as Revealed in the Papers of the America First Commit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Danger Undaunted, based on 338 manuscript boxes deposited in 1942 in the archives of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and peace, conveys the logic, complexity, and passion of the anti-interventionist movement. The book illustrates the dramatic impact this well-organized and vocal group...
Andrei Sakharov
The Conscience of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on Sakharov's...
Inequality and Economic Policy
Essays In Honor of Gary Becker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications,...
Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary
Conference Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.
by Seymour E. Goodman, Abraham D. Sofaer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In December 1999, more than forty members of government, industry, and academia assembled at the Hoover Institution to discuss this problem and explore possible countermeasures. The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism summarizes the conference papers and exchanges, addressing pertinent...
Dear Comrades
Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book presents, for the first time in English, a collection of previously unpublished Menshevik documents from the Hoover Institution Archives. It draws a dramatic picture of the Russian Civil War and the establishment of the Communist dictatorship as witnessed by the Russian Social Democrats,...
by Herbert Hoover, George H. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distill from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be called American...
Across the Great Divide
New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 devastated the American economy and caused U.S. policymakers to rethink their approaches to major financial crises. More than five years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but questions still persist about the best ways to avoid and respond to future financial...
by George H. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
George Nash's research reveals the enduring ties that bound Hoover to Stanford University.
Freedom Betrayed
Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation...
The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism
A Defining Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying...
Zhivago's Secret Journey
From Typescript to Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing...
One Day We Will Live Without Fear
Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
What was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident...