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Charles Rappleye

Biography

Charles Rappleye

Charles Rappleye is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor. He has written extensively on media, law enforcement and organized crime. The author of SONS OF PROVIDENCE: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution; ROBERT MORRIS: Financier of the American Revolution; and HERBERT HOOVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE: The Ordeal of the Presidency, he lives in Los Angeles.

Charles Rappleye

Books by Charles Rappleye

by Charles Rappleye - History, Nonfiction, Politics

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, unsympathetic and even paralyzed by national events, Hoover faced an uphill battle in the face of the Great Depression. Many historians dismiss him as merely ineffective. But in HERBERT HOOVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE, Charles Rappleye draws on rare and intimate sources --- memoirs and diaries and thousands of documents kept by members of his cabinet and close advisors --- to reveal a very different figure than the one often portrayed.