Roosevelt and Hopkins Book

Sixty years after the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the greatest war in history, many questions remain unanswered and many documents of great historical value are available only to a handful of researchers and scholars. This book, Roosevelt and Hopkins, is the classic account of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy during World War II and how Harry Hopkins, his friend and confidant, became the President's point man with Stalin, Churchill, and other allied leaders. It is also the inside history of America's inevitable wartime rise as a great power, written in a clear and wonderfully readable style by White House speechwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Sherwood. Roosevelt and Hopkins, An Intimate History was in effect the first richly documented history of the conduct of World War II by America's leaders and a huge bestseller in 1948-1950. It has not been reprinted since the 1950 revised edition. Enigma Books has asked noted FDR historian Irwin F. Gellman to write a new introduction, addressing some of the most recent issues surrounding both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, especially with regard to U.S. policy toward Stalin's Russia and the atomic bomb. Gellman brilliantly demonstrates the correctness of FDR's approach, which was first to win the war and then provide a vision of America's future in the post-war world. Some very recent questions have been raised about Harry Hopkins and his loyalty to his country and his president and Gellman provides the answers in his excellent introduction. Enigma is proud to offer this updated quality paperback edition of the great classic, Roosevelt and Hopkins, An Intimate History by Robert Sherwood.Read More