Publications
Since the Hoover Institution’s founding, researchers have published thousands of books using collections from the Library & Archives. Recent titles are listed below.
Empires at War, 1911-1923
This edited volume on World War I features images from Hoover’s Poster Collection
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Featuring Hoover’s Deaver and Hannaford Records and the Ronald Reagan Radio Commentary Sound Recordings, this book has been called “a Rosetta Stone for reading America and its politics today.”
Capital Failure: Rebuilding Trust in Financial Services
This edited volume features Hoover’s Mont Pelerin Society Records and the Milton Friedman Papers.
Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
Featuring Hoover’s Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection, this book revisits the “Gulag Archipelago” through the lens of Vorkuta.
Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
This young adult book, featuring Hoover’s Russian Pictorial Collection, introduces high school students to the Romanov family.
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Featuring Hoover’s Samuel Sloan Walker and George C. Minden papers, Finn and Couvée’s book is “a work of deep historical research that reads a little like Le Carré.”
Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust
Featuring Hoover’s Polish Information Center Records, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Papers, Stefan Korbonski Papers, and Poland Ambasada United States Records, this book examines what Allied forces knew about Auschwitz during World War II.
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
This “compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses,” features excerpts from Hoover’s Ekaterina Erastovna Zborovskaia letters, the Alexandre Georgievich Tarsaidze Papers and the Princess Barbara Dolgorouky Memoirs
Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
“The story of one man’s plan to revolutionize the world’s science information systems,” this book features Hoover’s Herbert Haviland Field, George Herron, and Vernon Kellogg papers.
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner Surviving the Russian Revolution
Featuring five of Hoover’s collections, including the Herman Axelbank film collection and the Okhrana records, this new biography charts Figner’s life from noblewoman to terrorist.