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I feel like Hoover was, at least from this book review, a quintessential geek type: a great lover of systems, math, and detail, but people found him cold and al
by Taikonerd 7y ago
I feel like Hoover was, at least from this book review, a quintessential geek type: a great lover of systems, math, and detail, but people found him cold and aloof. (During the relief of Belgium, people accused him of thinking of the starving Belgians as just numbers on a sheet.)
And Hoover lived the geek fantasy, right? "You're so smart, we're going to put you in charge of everything!" And then it ACTUALLY WORKED.
- smacktoward 7y ago> And then it ACTUALLY WORKED. Well, until it didn't.
- jhbadger 7y agoHe also arranged the famine relief in the Soviet Union in 1922. There was a fascinating book published recently "The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union From Ruin" that tells the story.