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Question

How was Hoover's personality ill-suited for dealing with the complex political and economic problems posed by the Great Depresssion?

Answer 1

Please understand, I am no expert on Hoover. Hoover was an extremely patient and conservative man. He truly believed that if left alone, the economy would turn itself around. America at the time, was shifting from an agricultural to an industrial based society and was still feeling the pains of the (first) world war and so was very much leaning towards being an isolationist society.

Answer 2

I think that Hoover did too little to quell the economic tragedy of the great depression. I don't know how much power he had to begin with, but it seems to me that whatever he did was try to put a band aid solution onto an amputation wound problem.
perhaps if there was a more lionhearted personality in his place something more would have happened to alleviate things.
However I know little about the great depression and so this is all a limited speculation.