Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

TIMOTHY WALCH is Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. Previously, Walch was editor of Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and co-director of the Modern Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Educated at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University, Walch is the author or editor of 16 books, including At the President's Side (1997), Parish School (1996), Immigrant America (1994), and Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman (1992). For his professional and scholarly work, Walch has received awards from the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Catholic Press Association, and the Teachers College of Columbia University.DWIGHT M. MILLER came to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in 1964 after three years as an assistant archivist in the Presidential Papers Section of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. As Senior Archivist, his experience at the Hoover Library includes co-editing Historical Materials in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and compiling and assisting in editing The Public Papers of the Presidents: Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933, 4 vols., and Proclamations and Executive Orders: Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933, 2 vols. Most recently he co-edited with Timothy Walch Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman: A Documentary History (1992).

• Foreword by John W. CarlinPreface by Timothy Walch and Dwight M. MillerIntroduction by Wayne S. ColeComrades in ArmsPartisan PoliticsCalm Before the StormA Bitter CampaignCooperation or ConflictCrisis Before ChristmasShuttle DiplomacyFace to FaceEnd of Our StringPolitical IntrigueLoyal OppositionWar YearsConclusion: My Personal Relationship with Franklin D. RooseveltGuide to Further Reading and ResearchIndex

"With informative and meticulous editing, Walch and Miller tell the tale of two political leaders who worked together in friendship during World War I and after, but became bitter enemies as a result of the Great Depression. It is an important story of the tragic conflict between two distinctly different presidents and their approaches to national and international affairs." Robert H. Ferrell Indiana University