Defining Moments - The First One Hundred Years of the Hoover Institution

About the author

Bertrand M. Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of many books, including The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2002), winner of the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize and the basis for the PBS documentary film The Great Famine (2011). Other books include A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives (2006) and Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (2009). Patenaude teaches history and international relations at Stanford University.

Summary

Charts the origins and growth of what is today the Hoover Institution over the course of a century of global upheaval, from World War I and the Russian Revolution, through World War II and the Cold War, to the rapidly developing challenges we face today.

Product details

• Authors: Bertrand M Patenaude, Bertrand M. Patenaude
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780817922740
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-2274-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 251 mm x 282 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1157 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous