The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags

by John Hamill

“Our chief care, once we had decided to publish this chronicle of the career of Mr. Hoover, was to make certain of the facts. To that end it was necessary to hunt up verifications in some of the farthest reaches of the globe. The accomplishment of this was not always easy, and in some cases it was almost impossible. The difficulties were not always of time and space. At many sources we came only to find that someone had already been there before us, going over the hard-beaten track of Mr. Hoover's past, and taking, buying up, and otherwise obliterating important records. … But we have finally accomplished our task. We have documentary proof for every syllable of this extraordinary work. …

“‘Do you realize,’ we were warned on all sides, ‘that you are in danger of antagonizing the most powerful man in the living world?’

“Maybe so. But we are still old-fashioned enough to believe that nothing is more powerful than truth: nothing so potent as fact. And so we submit the facts, amazing as they are.

“August 29, 1931”

– Publisher's Note. (page 5)

366 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1931

Reviews

[Herb Costello]

A difficult book to read.
The underlying story is interesting but it is difficult to read in that it presents itself as a stream of data revealing the various ways in which Hoover manipulated people and the markets in his constant appetite for money, his complete disrespect for people and his corruption of systems within his control.
Very Trumpian in a way but with a much more intelligent, less impulsive approach.
This book was published during Herbert Hoover's presidency, the author going all out to expose his monetary manipulations up to but not including the presidency.
Worth a read for the guts of the story but more at a pace to skim over some of the tedious repetition of data.