"exactness makes": Smith, p. 80.

the number of engineers: Edwin Layton, The Revolt of the Engineers The Revolt of the Engineers, p. 3.

"machinery is our": Robert Wohl, A Pa.s.sion for Wings A Pa.s.sion for Wings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), quoted in A. Alverez, "Lonely Pa.s.sion," (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), quoted in A. Alverez, "Lonely Pa.s.sion," New York Review of Books New York Review of Books, February 2, 1995, p. 7.

Eads had played: Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, p. 174.

"The same principles": Layton, p. 143.

"[h]armony not discord": Quoted in David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas The Path Between the Seas, p. 563.

"[M]etaphysics has practically": Ibid., p. 59.

"The golden rule": Ibid., p. 67.

"a principle so full": Eads, St. Louis dinner, March 23, 1875, ALP ALP, p. 47.

"The Millennium": Samuel Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency, p. 124.

"The shop": Terry Reynolds, ed., The Engineer in America The Engineer in America, p. 408.

"By some false": Herman Bernstein, Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover, pp. 40-41.

"the average politician's": Layton, p. 147.

"directorate": See, for example, Thorstein Veblen, Engineers and the Price System Engineers and the Price System (New York: Viking, 1921), p. 141. (New York: Viking, 1921), p. 141.

"the engineering profession personified": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 43.

"the world lives": Quoted in ibid., p. 59.

"the biggest figure": Schlesinger, p. 85.

Polish soldiers had executed: Bernstein, Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover, pp. 21-22.

"the only man": Schlesinger, p. 83.

"abandonment of": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 37.

"the ruthlessness": Smith, p. 93.

"ordered liberty": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 7.

"the social and economic": William Appleman Williams, "What This Country Needs," New York Review of Books New York Review of Books, November 5, 1970, p. 8.

"No civilization could": Hoover, American Individualism American Individualism, pp. 19, 22-23.

"[T]he real need": Ibid., p. 58.

"precise and efficient": Quoted in Layton, pp. 189-190; Hoover, American Individualism American Individualism, pp. 22, 58.

"abnormally shy": Henry Pringle, "Hoover: An Enigma Easily Misunderstood," World's Work World's Work 56 (June 1928), pp. 131-143. 56 (June 1928), pp. 131-143.

"the pneumatic drill": Smith, p. 53.

"those strong men": Lloyd, p. 82.

"He is certainly": Schlesinger, pp. 79-85.

"I am 100 percent": Schlesinger, pp. 79-85; Gary Best, "The Hoover-for-President Boom," pp. 228, 244.

Old Guard GOP senators: Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 80.

"I should prefer": See Robert Murray, "Herbert Hoover and the Harding Cabinet" in Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, p. 20.

"Hoover sees": Lloyd, p. 92 "organized": Ellis Hawley, "Herbert Hoover and Economic Stabilization 1921-22," in Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, p. 65.

Hoover then had the Federation: Layton, p. 203.

the Better Homes of America a.s.sociation: Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 111.

This group advocated: Ibid.; also, Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, p. 114.

He helped make second mortgages: Rosenwald to Hoover, n.d., HHPL.

"We are pa.s.sing": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 68.

"the most powerful": Michael Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression (New York: Norton 1992), pp. 74-80. (New York: Norton 1992), pp. 74-80.

"not marked as coming": Lloyd, p. 66.

"among the few": NYT NYT, December 17, 1922.

Literary Digest ran a story: ran a story: Literary Digest Literary Digest, May 14, 1927; note that the magazine dated its issues far in advance of actual publication.

"Capital Mystified": NYT NYT, April 16, 1927.

"That man has offered": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 124.

"consumed with ambition": Quoted in Richard Smith, An Uncommon Man An Uncommon Man, p. 144.

"I felt": Joan Hoff Wilson, p. 121.

CHAPTER T TWENTY-TWO.

"The Army Engineers": Unsigned Red Cross memorandum, "Conference Presidents Red Cross Committee," April 22, 1927; statement by Dwight Davis following conference, April 22, 1927; both in RCP.

"to use such government": Henry Baker to J. D. Cremer, August 1, 1928, RCP.

"In the course of": Quoted in Bruce Lohof, "Hoover and the 1927 Mississippi Flood," Ph.D. diss., p. 106.

"Essential push": Fieser to James McClintock, May 5, 1927; Fieser to Henry Baker, May 6, 1927; Fieser to T. R. Buchanan, May 9, 1927, all in RCP.

Hoover himself: Oral history of Turner Catledge, HHPL.

wire daily reports: F. D. Beneke to Edgar Jadwin, April 30, 1927, Office of the Adjutant General central files, NA, RG 94.

"squarely on": See memo from Henry Baker to Fieser, May 2, 1927, Box 741, RCP.

Hoover streamlined things more: Henry Baker to J. D. Cremer, August 1, 1928, RCP.

The Memphis mayor had a.s.signed: Oral history of Turner Catledge, HHPL.

he was bankrolling: William McCain, "The Life and Labor of Dennis Murphree," unpublished ms., 1950, MDAH.

Crosby would soon become: Wire from Simpson to Hoover, April 27, 1927, HHPL.

Only six people: Interview with Frank Hall, March 24 and December 18, 1992.

professional fisherman came: Foster Davis to Robert Bondy, May 4, 1927, RCP.

"I made myself": Interview recorded by historian Pete Daniel, who kindly shared tapes of interviews he conducted for his book Deep'n as It Come Deep'n as It Come.

The Clearing House a.s.sociation: Interview with Hunter Kimbrough, November 27, 1992.

"I go into Jim's Cafe": Daniel's interview tape.

"I searched": Ibid.

"He found one family": Daniel's interview with Virginia Pullen in Vicksburg, May 13, 1975.

"We could hear": Tape of panel discussion at Second Levee Break Celebration, Greenville, Miss., April 1990, loaned by Jack Gannon.

"I come here": Quoted in Daniel, p. 17; Oscar Johnston to H. W. Lee, Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers a.s.soc., May 2, 1927, D&PLCP.

"For thirty-six hours": Percy, LL LL, p. 250.

"The Mississippi Delta": Van de Waltman to Commerce Department, April 29, 1927, RCP.

"just swelled up": Oral history of Henry Mascagni, August 8, 1977, MDAH.

"fully two hundred bodies": Fieser to A. L. Shafer, May 7, 1927, HHPL.

they took soundings: Interview with Frank Hall, December 23, 1992; also Daniel's 1975 interview with Caillouet.

"[e]very relief boat": See, for example, Spalding to District Engineer, Louisville, Kentucky, April 26, 1927, RC, RG 2, box 740.

"I am speaking": Radio address, May 1, 1927, HHPL.

"The swiftly moving current": NYT NYT, May 6, 1927.

"Today it is possible": MC-A MC-A, May 5, 1927.

"For mile after mile": NYT NYT, May 6, 1927.

CHAPTER T TWENTY-THREE.

"First in Cairo": NYT NYT, May 9, 1927.

"[Failure would] increase": Ibid.; NYT NYT, May 10, 1927.

"We wish that": Quoted in Bruce Lohof, "Herbert Hoover, Spokesman for Human Efficiency," p. 694.

The flood, hemmed in: Report of Board of [Louisiana] State Engineers Report of Board of [Louisiana] State Engineers, 1929, pp. 98-99.

"of tremendous proportions": Isaac Cline, "Daily Flood Bulletin," May 12, 1927, Louisiana Collection, TUL.

"immense deposits": Paul Dettmer, "Final Melville Report," May 15, 1928, RCP, box 737.

"a veritable wall": NYT NYT, May 19, 1927.

"Their bodies were found": NYT NYT, May 17, 1927.

"A wall of water": AP story appearing in MC-A MC-A, May 24, 1927.

"All population": Hoover to Coolidge, May 24, 1927, HHPL.

"Imperative that refugees": Hoover to Jadwin, May 13, 1927, RCP.

The War Department: See Jadwin to Hoover, May 17, 1927; Hoover to Jadwin, June 5, 1927, RCP.

the flood put as much: See American Red Cross, The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of Operations The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927: Official Report of Operations (Washington, D.C., 1928), pp. 39-46. (Washington, D.C., 1928), pp. 39-46.

"concentration camps": Ibid.

"not necessarily reliable": DeWitt Smith to Hoover, January 21, 1928, RCP.