The CSpan1 discussion on Hoover is excellent

[malaise]

For the record Carter was right with those 1980 ads using Hoover - Reagan was Hoover's second coming.
Cheney can bawl all he likes. Bushco's reign of terror and terror is Hoover Version 3.

Leuchtenburg is good.

[Hidden Stillness]

1. It was Fun--And Leuchtenburg is Always Great

It was great, and the calls were fabulous--almost all Democrats calling in, and they were not stupid "Hoover wasn't that bad" types either. They were smart, informed, and angry, and a large number of them made correct comparisons between that era, causing that Depression, and the current era of greed and crime, causing this one. William Leuchtenburg is one of my favorite historians--very thorough research, and easy to read, conversational style, and very wise about things. I am currently reading Leuctenberg's "The White House Looks South," on FDR, Truman, and Johnson, and their increasingly strained relations with the South, and am going to be reading "In the Shadow of FDR" soon (have it on order). Leuchtenburg is a great admirer of FDR as the greatest after Lincoln, and was just fabulous answering all these questions about the disastrous and horrible Hoover, the rightly-hated. The calls, though, were what was really exciting and reassuring--very clear on what Hoover was and did, the greed and corruption of the Administration, and its comparison to today.