richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another book and this time we are going to give license to this crucial controversial depression subject we are going to break our hour into three parts. the first part is to remind ourselves who hoover was in the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and its many pages and much editing in detail in the third part will be to talk about why it matters. what about the great depression and today c-span viewers and george welcome. hoover's identity really begins in college and you have written a whole book about that. where did hoover go to college and how did it affect him? >> guest: first of all he was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of lakers and the son of a blacksmith and he was orphaned before he was 10. he went out to live eventually with an uncle in oregon never had more than a middle school education really. and then applied for entrance into newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891 he got admission was told to take additional tutoring with the help of which he p

richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another book and this time we give license to this crucial controversial depression subject. we will break our hour into three parts. the first is to remind ourselves who hoover was. the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and many pages and much editing and detail and the third part will be to talk about why it matters. what about the great depression and c-span viewers, welcome, george nash, welcome. hoover's identity really begins in college and you have written a whole book about that. where did hoover go to college and how did it affect him? >> you was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and a blacksmith and was often before he was -- went out to live with an uncle in oregon, never had more than a high school land newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891 and got admission and was told to take some additional tutoring with the help of which he passed most of is the entrance exams and was allowed to enter. he was probably literally the first student at sta

richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another boat. this time are going to get right to this crucial controversial depression. are going to break our our into three parts. the first is to remind ourselves who hoover was. the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and its many pages and editing and detail. the third will be to talk about why it matters, what about the great depression. today c-span yours welcome. hoover's identity really began in college. you've written all book about that. where did you ever go to college and how did it affect them? >> was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and some of a blacksmith. he was orphaned before ten, went out to live with them on call in oregon, never had more than a middle school education. and then he applied for entrance into a newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891. he got in mission and was told to take additional to agree with the help of which she post -- passed most of his entrance against. he was probably the first student at stanf

he's a frequent guest on this channel and richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him for another book and this time we are going to give license to this depression subject. we are going to break the hour into three parts. the first is to remind ourselves who hoover was and to talk about the production of this tremendous book and its many pages and much editing and a detailed and the third part would be to talk about why it matters. what about the great depression and today's c-span viewers, welcome. hoover's identity really began in college and you have written a whole book about that. where did hoover go to college and how did it affect him? he was born in 1874 as the son of quakers and a blacksmith and he was orphaned before he was ten. eventually with an uncle in oregon he never had more than a middle school education and then applied for entrance into the newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891 and got admission and was told to take some additional tutoring with the help of which he passe passf his entrance exams. he was literally the first at the stanf