Discover the seventy-year relationship between the thirty-first president of the United States and the university that shaped his life and career. In Herbert Hoover and Stanford University, historian George H. Nash chronicles the enduring bond between Herbert Hoover and his alma mater. Entering Stanford as a member of the Pioneer Class of 1891, Hoover rose from an orphaned undergraduate to become the university's most influential benefactor, trustee, and institutional architect. Nash details how Hoover guided Stanford through financial crises, selected its leadership, and founded world-class research bodies while weathering sharp ideological clashes with faculty and administrators. Readers and historians gain key insights into: - The founding of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. - Hoover's decisive role in establishing the university tuition system and preserving the Stanford Medical School. - The behind-the-scenes institutional struggles over academic governance and political ideology during the twentieth century. This scholarly study offers an essential perspective on American higher education and presidential history.