David L Roll

Hopkins Touch

Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 833g
• ISBN-13: 9780199891955
• ISBN-10: 0199891958
• Artikelnr.: 35482181

Autorenporträt

David Roll is the 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

Prologue: A Room Upstairs
Chapter 1: Ambitious Reformer
Chapter 2: Asks for Nothing Except to Serve
Chapter 3: They are Sowing the Wind
Chapter 4: Even to the End
Chapter 5: First Glimpse of Dawn
Chapter 6: Vodka Has Authority
Chapter 7: At Last We Have Gotten Together
Chapter 8: We Are All In the Same Boat Now
Chapter 9: Some Sort of a Front this Summer
Chapter 10: Harry's Invaluable Aid
Chapter 11: Striking Back
Chapter 12: Casablanca: A Pretty Feeble Effort
Chapter 13: Trident: A Mollifying Influence
Chapter 14: Quadrant: Churchill Converted?
Chapter 15: Tehran: Lining Up with the Russians
Chapter 16: A Soldier's Debt
Chapter 17: From Malta to Yalta
Chapter 18: A Leave of Absence From Death
Chapter 19: We Do Well to Salute his Memory
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography