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The Hopkins touch [electronic resource] : Harry Hopkins and the forging of the alliance to defeat Hitler / David L. Roll.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2013Description: 1 online resource (510 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps.ISBN: 9780190254544 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946
| Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates | World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history | World War, 1939-1945 -- United States | Statesmen -- United States -- Biography | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199891955DDC classification: 940.532 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: David Roll offers a portrait of the most powerful man in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. He 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 Winston Churchill and Joseph 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
David Roll offers a portrait of the most powerful man in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. He 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 Winston Churchill and Joseph 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.
Description based on print version record.