Images from HIUS 202

Hoover, Campaigning, and Mass Communication, While Al Smith's critics accused him of being a backwards Catholic, Hoover represented the modern business ethos. Hoover, posed here in a 1927 propaganda shot, symbolized the modernizing of the campaign trail and the utilization of electronic communication to politicize Americans. Source: Harold Evans, et al., The American Century (1998).

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