Review by: Janice M. Ladendorf Review Date: November 2018 WWI Crusaders offers an interesting look at the CRB – an American-led relief effort in Belgium during World War I. The book is really two books that came together over time.…

This detailed account of a little-known U.S.-initiated and -managed food and clothing relief committee in World War I’s Belgium has all the makings of a dramatic feature film: A rising political star (Herbert Hoover). Underground journalists who every week undermine…

In 1910, few would have guessed that a tall, skinny recent graduate from Denver’s East High School would someday be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize—and turn it down, saying he didn’t deserve it. An American president would even say…