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<br> <em>The Hopkins Touch</em> offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. <p>David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the linchpin in FDR's--and America's--relationships with Churchill and Stalin, and spoke with an authority second only to the president's. Gaunt, nearly spectral, and malnourished following an operation to remove part of his stomach, the newly widowed Hopkins accepted the president's invitation to move into the White House in 1940 and remained Roosevelt's closest advisor, speechwriter, sounding board, and friend nearly to the end. Between 1940 and 1945, with incomparable skill and indefatigable determination, Hopkins organized the Lend-Lease program and steered the president to prepare the public for war with Germany. He became FDR's problem-solver and fixer, helping to smooth over crises, such as when the British refused to allow an invasion of Europe in 1943, enraging Stalin, who felt that the Soviet Union was carrying the military effort against the Nazis. Lacking an official title or a clear executive branch po

Author

David L. Roll

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199311552

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.23 / 5 (137 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14