Herbert Hoover expert visits Grand Rapids

Why did President Hoover fail to find viable solutions to the Great Depression? Why was his initial response to the stock market crash of 1929 so ineffective? These are some of the questions George Nash, an award-winning historian, will answer during his visit to Grand Rapids.

Nash’s talk, “Hardscrabble Lessons: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and American Conservatism,” is sponsored by Grand Valley State University’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and the Gerald R. Ford Museum. The presentation will be held Thursday, October 29, at 7 p.m. in the Gerald R. Ford Museum Auditorium, 303 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, call the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at (616) 331-2770 or visit www.allpresidents.org.

BACKGROUND
Nash is an independent scholar, historian and lecturer with specialties in 20th century American political and intellectual history. His writings and speeches are about the history of American conservatism, the life of Herbert Hoover and the education of the Founding Fathers, among others. His articles and reviews have appeared in National Review, Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, Modern Age, The University Bookman and New York Book Review. He is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945 and The Life of Herbert Hoover. He is currently working on a new book, Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism. Nash attended Amherst College and earned his doctorate in history from Harvard University.