Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

by David L. Roll

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199891958
• ISBN13: 9780199891955
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.4"