President Herbert Hoover is synonymous with failure. As the Great Depression hit, shanty town across America were nicknamed 'Hoovervilles' in honour of the man held responsible for their birth. But there's more to him than this. Today Don restores depth and nuance to Hoover's tragic story with his wonderful guest Eric Rauchway, author of "Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal".Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sound/All3 MediaAmerican History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
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It's a scene of stark contrast. We are standing in a gathering of slumped ramshackle sheds made of corrugated cardboard, tar paper and tin sheet, clustered across the dry, dusty grounds of an empty reservoir. Residents of this hovel community loiter in the lanes and doorways, looking forlorn.
All this against the grand backdrop of towering high-rises constructed in the boom times just a few years ago. Geographically, we're in Central Park in New York City, halfway between the east and west sides of Manhattan in a spacious area that will one day be called the Great Lawn.
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