Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler (Paperback)

from schwager

This is an absolutely fascinating piece. Everything I knew of Harry Hopkins was, prior to this book, framed almost as a sidekick of sorts to FDR. David Roll does an amazing job of painting a picture of the man who had such enormous influence on the events of a generation. I really find it shockin...

from stevesmits

I suppose there could be a problem with a history book that frames monumental issues and events around the perspective of one man's involvement in them. The danger is that narrowness could under value the enormity of events or diminish the contributions of others. Certainly this could be true for...

from pmartin462

The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler by David Roll is, for me, another great piece of history published by the Oxford University Press. I, like (I suspect) most readers, had only a vague concept of who Harry Hopkins was or what role he played in histor...

from Hedgepeth

Roll does an excelent job of shedding light on one of the most influential but almost invisible men of the 20th century. In this bio I found the answer to my question of just who was Harry Hopkins and why did he seem to always be present at significant meetings. By showing how Hopkins worked both...

from Eliz12

"The Hopkins Touch" is a masterful, compelling and insightful book. I would wake up early before work to read it, pick it up on my lunch hour, then look forward to getting back to it again in the evening. I love history and have read numerous books about World War II; this ranks among my favorite...