David Roll

Hopkins Touch

Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

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Produktbeschreibung

"The best biography of a crucial figure at pivotal moment in American history since Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1948 classic, Roosevelt and Hopkins." -Steven Casey, author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780190218171
• ISBN-10: 0190218177
• Artikelnr.: 42485978

Autorenporträt

David Roll is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and founder of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a public interest organization that provides pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs around the world. He was awarded the Purpose Prize Fellowship by Civic Ventures in 2009. He lives with his wife Nancy and their dog Thatcher in Washington, DC and Glen Arbor, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

C O N T E N T S
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 Th e 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 Th e Root of the Matter