Herbert Hoover

A rabbit bolts across the Warsaw race-track, and five thousand children break ranks to chase it. Herbert Hoover watches them run—and begins to cry.

In 1919, Poland is newly free but still hungry, and Hoover has come to see whether the children whose meals his relief work helped provide are strong enough to play. Their tin cups and paper napkins, marked with the American flag, turn a public welcome into something far more intimate: proof that the children can run again. Vernon L. Kellogg, an observer and colleague, traces Hoover’s path from boyhood and mining work to the wartime effort to feed a continent. How did one man organize food, ships, money and diplomacy against hunger on such a scale?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.