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American presidents series) volume 31
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Chronicles the life of Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the United States, focusing on his term in office, during which time the stock market crashed, and describing his attempts to stabilize the starving economy.
10) James Monroe
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The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president". James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty", following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, his statement of principles in 1823 that the western hemisphere was to be considered closed to European intervention....