Vincent Gaddis is Associate Professor of American History at Benedictine University. Professor Gaddis holds a Ph.D. in United States Public Policy History from Northern Illinois University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933Chapter 4 Herbert Hoover and the Unemployment Conference of 1921Chapter 5 Herbert Hoover and Political Economy, 1919-1925: An OverviewChapter 6 A Challenge to Voluntarism: Hoover and Coal, 1921-1927Chapter 7 Voluntarism and Municipal Government: Chicago, 1921-1927Chapter 8 Unemployment Relief Strategies in Milwaukee, 1921-1925Chapter 9 Detroit, Automobiles, and the Unemployment Crisis of 1921Chapter 10 Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the Widening of VoluntarismChapter 11 Municipal Government and Voluntarism: Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit-The Great DepressionChapter 12 Conclusion: Herbert Hoover and the Public SphereChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

Gaddis draws on research in personal manuscript collections, municpial records, local and state historical societies, printed autobiographies and biographies, and city newspapers to fill in the picture of how Hooverian response to the immediate crisis of unemployment in 1921 played out on the local level.