The Hopkins Touch : Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199891962
- Hopkins, Harry L. -- (Harry Lloyd), -- 1890-1946
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
- 940.53/2
- D753 -- .R64 2013eb
Cover -- Contents -- Prologue: Moving In -- 1 Ambitious Reformer -- 2 Asks for Nothing Except to Serve -- 3 He Suddenly Came Out with It-The Whole Program -- 4 The Right Man -- 5 First Glimpse of Dawn? -- 6 Vodka Has Authority -- 7 At Last We Have Gotten Together -- 8 We Are All in the Same Boat Now -- 9 Some Sort of a Front This Summer -- 10 The Hopkins Touch -- 11 Lighting the Torch -- 12 The View from Marrakech -- 13 Fault Lines -- 14 The Alliance Shifts -- 15 Tilting toward the Russians -- 16 A Soldier's Debt -- 17 The Best They Could Do -- 18 A Leave of Absence from Death -- 19 The Root of the Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
An engaging biography of one of FDR's closest advisors and political point man during World War II, The Hopkins Touch brings this significant figure to life, through previously private diaries and letters.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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