Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Jan. 13, 1968 (Dan Poush photograph.)
WEST BRANCH, Ia.—This road of incongruity was too much to pass up.
I’ve driven past the sign on I-80 for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum at least a dozen times on my way to Iowa City, the Iowa State Fair, or a minor league baseball game. I never stopped to see the museum. After all, in a 2021 CSPAN survey, presidential historians ranked the 44 presidents. Hoover came in 36th due to his legacy of economic woes. Months after his 1929 election the stock market crashed and the United States fell into the Great [...]
