Harry Hopkins

FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin

Autor: Christopher D. O'Sullivan

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 14-21 zile

268.37 lei

One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral respon...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Christopher D. O'Sullivan

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2014

Pagini

210

EAN

9781442222205

ISBN

1442222204

Enbook ID

05076735

Editura

Rowman & Littlefield

Greutate

462

Dimensiuni

236 x 163 x 25

Descriere completă

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, 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 of the outbreak of World War II in Europe, as his most suitable successor, the New Deal's legatee, a possible Democratic nominee for president in 1940. Much of what FDR accomplished would never have been possible without Hopkins - whom the press described as not only FDR's most trusted official, but also his most intimate personal friend. Analyzing Hopkins's role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the 20th 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.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Harry Hopkins

FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și