Harry Hopkins: FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin

Harry Hopkins: FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin (Biographies in American Foreign Policy)

One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President Rooseveltâ€™s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the â€œworldâ€™s greatest spenderâ€ or FDRâ€™s â€œleft-wing Rasputin.â€

Hopkins was a paradoxical man: a trained social worker who enjoyed the company of the â€œswells,â€ attending cocktail parties, and gambling at the track. Once the quintessential New Dealer, during World War II he single-mindedly devoted himself to aiding the allies, downplaying his previous commitment to social reform and rupturing his friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. He was sickly and underweight, yet a profane and blunt-spoken man, lacking in any outward affectations of charisma. Still, FDR curiously saw Hopkins, who moved into the White House on the very day that Germany invaded France in May 1940, as his most suitable successor, the New Dealâ€™s legatee, a possible Democratic nominee for president.

Much of what FDR accomplished would never have been possible without Hopkinsâ€”whom the press described as not only FDRâ€™s most trusted official, but also his most intimate personal friend. Analyzing Hopkinsâ€™ role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the twentieth-centuryâ€™s most indispensable leaders, historian Christopher Oâ€™Sullivan offers enormous insight into the most controversial aspects of FDRâ€™s foreign policy, the New Deal Era, and the beginning of modern American history.
Country USA
Brand Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-10-30
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781442222205

Country	USA
Brand	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-10-30
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781442222205

Harry Hopkins: FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin (Biographies in American Foreign Policy)

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