New Book From Conservative Icons Herbert Hoover and George Nash

Most books by former presidents are easily forgettable (as anyone who has ever read Gerald Fords "A Time to Heal" can attest), but there is at least one major exception among the men who occupied the White House in the 20th century. During his more than three decades of life after losing the 1932 presidential election to FDR, Herbert Hoover penned an interesting three-volume autobiography and a fascinating study on the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. He also plugged away on what he and his team called his magnum opus -- a study of American policy during the Second World War and the start of the Cold War.

Hoovers magnum opus, in which he attacks the foreign policy of political nemesis Franklin Roosevelt for being beneficial to the Soviet Union, is finally being published. The Hoover Institute has released "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath."

The book was edited and has an introduction from one of the leading intellectual lights of the American conservative movement -- George H. Nash, who sent out a notice on Monday that the book was being released. Nash is a leading expert on our 31st president. He wrote the first three volumes of the official biography from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association and a study of Hoovers relationship with his beloved Stanford University. Nash is also famous for his other works including "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945" and "Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism." Those of us who try to grapple with the history and heritage of American conservatism are, once again, in Nashs debt.