This was an extraordinary book review, and an extraordinary life, even if you discount for the biographer's positive bias towards his own subject. Hoover is rea

This was an extraordinary book review, and an extraordinary life, even if you discount for the biographer's positive bias towards his own subject. Hoover is really under-rated, and unfairly remembered for some of his policies at the start of the Great Depression. If he had not been elected president, his combination of engineering efficiency and competitive altruism, and his accomplishments as a businessman and philanthropist, would earn him comparisons to Bill Gates.