The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler - Couverture souple

Roll, David L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190218177 ISBN 13 : 9780190218171

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2015

Synopsis

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the linchpin in FDR's--and America's--relationships with Churchill and Stalin, and spoke with an authority second only to the president's. Hopkins could take the political risks his boss could not, and proved crucial to maintaining personal relations among the Big Three. Beloved by some--such as Churchill, who believed that Hopkins "always went to the root of the matter"--and trusted by most--including the paranoid Stalin--there were nevertheless those who resented the influence of "the White House Rasputin."

Based on newly available sources, The Hopkins Touch is an absorbing, substantial work that offers a fresh perspective on the World War II era and the Allied leaders, through the life of the man who kept them on point until the war was won.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Roll is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and founder of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a public interest organization that provides pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs around the world. He was awarded the Purpose Prize Fellowship by Civic Ventures in 2009. He lives with his wife Nancy and their dog Thatcher in Washington, DC and Glen Arbor, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190218177
• ISBN 13: 9780190218171
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible