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The Hoovers had an exceptionally busy time during the first two months of 1921, as they tried to raise funds for European relief, complete the Palo Alto house, and get ready for their new lives in Washington, where Bert would become secretary of commerce in Warren Harding’s cabinet. Amid the rush, their twenty-second wedding anniversary on February 10 passed unnoted, with Bert working in the East, and Lou in California.
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Pamphlet, Zoe Beckley, “Mrs. Herbert Hoover: ‘American Through and Through’” (reprinted from the Buffalo Evening News by the North American Newspaper Alliance, 1928), in Benjamin S. Allen Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California, Box 1, “Correspondence, 1920–1929”; Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (New York: Free Press, 1991), 76–88.
Bruce E. Seely, Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), 11–65.
Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880–1940 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2001), 116–19
For a thoughtful analysis of the way that the rise of the consumer society freed Americans from direct dependence on nature yet increased their use of resources, creating the conditions for the rise of first the conservation movement and later the environmental movement, see Gregory Summers, Consuming Nature: Environmentalem in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006).
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Clements, K.A. (2010). Family and Business, 1921. In: The Life of Herbert Hoover. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107908_6
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