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

Roll, David L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199891958 ISBN 13 : 9780199891955

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Roll is the 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: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199891958
• ISBN 13: 9780199891955
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible