Hoover.

Describes the quality that makes United States Senator Herbert Hoover a constructive man in American public life. Acceptance of the offer of U.S. President Warren Harding to become a member of his Cabinet; Use of knowledge as the basis of power; Ability to think quantitatively; Story of Hoover's dealings with suspicious governments before the U.S. entered the war and since the armistice; Gift for seeing the human reality in a true order of values; Characteristics as a shrewd and daring trader.