- Summary
- "Franklin Roosevelt's friend and advisor Harry Hopkins, an Iowan social worker who became the president's political "point man" during World War II, was one of the most improbable and important political operators of the twentieth century. Having gained Roosevelt's trust assisting on campaigns and leading relief and jobs programs - including the WPA - during the 1930s, Hopkins helped the president confront the growing threat, and later the reality, of war. From the beginning, Hopkins grasped that the key to victory was the creation and maintenance of an Allied coalition of military power sustained by economic cooperation. He acted as the self-described "catalytic agent" between the Allied leaders, meeting frequently with Churchill and Stalin both before and long after Pearl Harbor and coordinating the $50 billion Lend-Lease program. David Roll's portrait of Hopkins discusses his early life and career, but emphasizes his role alongside FDR (and later Truman) in World War II, making use of previously private diaries and letters."--Pub. desc.
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Roll, David L., 1940-
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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Ambitious reformer
Asks for nothing except to serve
He suddenly came out with it: the whole program
Right man
First glimpse of dawn?
Vodka has authority
At last we have gotten together
We are all in the same boat now
Some sort of a front this summer
Hopkins touch
Lighting the torch
View from Marrakech
Fault lines
Alliance shifts
Tilting toward the Russians
A soldier's debt
Best they could do
A leave of absence from death
Root of the matter.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-480) and index.
Ambitious reformer -- Asks for nothing except to serve -- He suddenly came out with it: the whole program -- Right man -- First glimpse of dawn? -- Vodka has authority -- At last we have gotten together -- We are all in the same boat now -- Some sort of a front this summer -- Hopkins touch -- Lighting the torch -- View from Marrakech -- Fault lines -- Alliance shifts -- Tilting toward the Russians -- A soldier's debt -- Best they could do -- A leave of absence from death -- Root of the matter.
