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Harry Hopkins
Christopher D. O'Sullivan
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Description for Harry Hopkins
Analyzing Harry Hopkins' role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the twentieth-century's most indispensable leaders, historian Christopher O'Sullivan offers enormous insight into the most controversial aspects of FDR's foreign policy, the New Deal Era, and the beginning of modern American history. Series: Biographies in American Foreign Policy. Num Pages: 210 pages, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGH; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
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 Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s greatest spender” or FDR’s “left-wing Rasputin.” Hopkins was a paradoxical man: a trained social worker who enjoyed the company of the “swells,” 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, ... Read more
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 Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s greatest spender” or FDR’s “left-wing Rasputin.” Hopkins was a paradoxical man: a trained social worker who enjoyed the company of the “swells,” 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Biographies in American Foreign Policy
Number of Pages
210
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442222205
SKU
V9781442222205
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About Christopher D. O'Sullivan
Christopher D. O’Sullivan teaches history and international studies at the University of San Francisco where he is the recipient of their most recent Distinguished Lecturer Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of several books including FDR and the End of Empire, Colin Powell: A Political Biography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), The United Nations, and Sumner Welles: Postwar ... Read more
Reviews for Harry Hopkins
With a detailed, practical analysis of one of the most accomplished power brokers in F.D.R.’s New Deal administration, O’ Sullivan, a professor of history and international studies at the University of San Francisco, focuses on Harry Hopkins, the president’s confidant and catalyst for much of the era’s liberal policies providing government relief and public work jobs such as the Civil ... Read more