Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere

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 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933 Chapter 4 Herbert Hoover and the Unemployment Conference of 1921 Chapter 5 Herbert Hoover and Political Economy, 1919-1925: An Overview Chapter 6 A Challenge to Voluntarism: Hoover and Coal, 1921-1927 Chapter 7 Voluntarism and Municipal Government: Chicago, 1921-1927 Chapter 8 Unemployment Relief Strategies in Milwaukee, 1921-1925 Chapter 9 Detroit, Automobiles, and the Unemployment Crisis of 1921 Chapter 10 Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the Widening of Voluntarism Chapter 11 Municipal Government and Voluntarism: Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit-The Great Depression Chapter 12 Conclusion: Herbert Hoover and the Public Sphere Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 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.