Memoir events fill March at New Bo Books and area venues
The city hosts four author events at New Bo Books Cedar Rapids and additional readings at Prairie Lights Mount Mercy University and Barnes & Noble. Laura Crossett opens the series with Night Sweats author talks on a Saturday afternoon. Other writers include Vermillion Thiel duo on gender transition, Rachael Herron with Pack Up the Moon release, Yiyun Li reading Kinder Than Solitude, and Karen Russell Q and A plus local author Bonnie Brennen and Kate Kasten reading Wildwood and Better Days. Paul Fell discusses cartooning tools at the Hoover Library.
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New Bo
New Bo Books
Iowa City
Laura Crossett
Crossett
Mary Vermillion
Benjamin Thiel
Kim Flugga-Ciha
Vermillion
Thiel
Mount Mercy University
Mara Gilgannon
Flugga-Ciha
Rachael Herron
Herron
Robert Buckley
Marion
Kate Kasten
Prairie Lights
S. Dubuque St
Kasten
Missing link in Hoover legacy explored by Nash
Historian George Nash argues Herbert Hoover remains a political orphan with a nuanced view of government. The new memoir The Crusade Years 1933 1955 reviews Hoover critiques of New Deal, deficit spending and welfare state critics, noting Timely relevance to ongoing debates on government's role in a free market economy.
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Arbert Hoover
U.S
George Nash
Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt
Nash
Herbert Hoover
Hoover Institution Press
Stanford University
United States
Historian George Nash talks Hoover memoirs and new book
Nash discusses rediscovered Hoover memoir and his edited Freedom Betrayed at a March 29 event at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. He reveals the missing link in Hoover’s writings and reflects on Hoover’s post presidency life, philosophy, and family.
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Family Foundation
Nash
Hoover
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Calif
Hoover Library
West Branch
Land of Liberty
Lou Henry Hoover
Mrs. Hoover
Iowa
Waldorf Astoria Towers
New York City
Harvard University
America
Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library Association
The Crusade Years praise from scholars on Hoover biography
Reviews praise Herbert Hoover biography The Crusade Years for its balance of personal life and critique of post New Deal America. George Nash is lauded for deep Hoover knowledge and clear, engaging style. Analysts note Hoover’s philanthropy and love of fishing and youth.
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Hoover
David Kennedy
Stanford University
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Bonnie Brennen
Brennen
Paul Fell
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum
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Areasonlaw
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Ilmaas
S. Lith
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Linn. Co
MERCY
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State Historical Society
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White House
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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