ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS AN INTIMATE HISTORY by Robert E. Sherwood 1948 1st edition
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ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS AN INTIMATE HISTORY by Robert E. Sherwood 1948 1st edition:
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ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS - AN INTIMATE HISTORY
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New York: Harper & Brothers; copyright 1948, ex-library, and in acceptable condition
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ABOUT THE BOOK: This book has the inside story of the final triumph and how FDR organized and used the men and tools at his disposal to bring about defeat of the Axis and to end fascism to the world.
Because it offers a rare insight into the workings of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wartime diplomacy, this book is the classic account of FDR’s foreign policy during World War II, examining how Harry Hopkins, his friend and confidant, became the president’s “point man” with Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and other allied leaders. It is the inside history of America’s inevitable wartime rise as a great power, written in wonderfully readable prose by White House speechwriter and prize-winning playwright Robert Sherwood, who received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for this portrait of FDR and Harry Hopkins.
From Foreign Affairs: “One of the best recent books published on American foreign policy was released more than 50 years ago. Sherwood, a gifted speechwriter for F.D.R. and friend of his adviser Harry Hopkins, wrote his book with astonishing access to relevant people and papers in 1948. He then won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1949...Hopkins might today be called a \"national security adviser\" to his president, but this title would greatly understate his responsibilities -- which tended to extend to whatever problem was most important. This book focuses on the war years, using Hopkins as the best window through which to see the inner workings of global leadership. Despite his empathies, Sherwood was a rigorous historian and brilliant portraitist. In this current era of uncertainty and opportunity, Sherwood\'s book strongly, subtly resonates.”
From the Introduction: “Immediately after Franklin D. Roosevelt\'s death, virtually everyone who was in any way associated with him received offers from editors and publishers to write memoirs—and it is by now a matter of record that most of these offers were accepted. I doubt that there have ever been so many books written so soon about the life and times of any one man. I myself had no intention of adding to the burden on the library shelves. I had some wonderful, ineradicable memories and an un- organized assortment of notes from the years 1940-1945, and I intended to put these down in more or less haphazard form to be contributed to the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park and filed there for whatever use future biographers might be able to make of them, for I knew how much of our knowledge of Abraham Lincoln has depended on chance bits of recollection written down by comparatively unimportant contemporaries. I knew that Harry Hopkins was planning to write a book—indeed, he had talked to me about it some months before Roosevelt\'s death and had begun at that time to make arrangements with publishers. When I saw him occasionally during the summer and fall of 1945 he talked as if he were making progress with the book and I eagerly awaited its publica- tion. I did not know at that time, but have learned subsequently, that he hoped to have the benefit of aid in the writing from his friend, Raymond Swing. In November I saw Hopkins for the last time and went to Holly- wood to work for Samuel Goldwyn on a movie, \" The Best Years of Our Lives.\" (This title referred hopefully to the future as opposed to the past.) I was there in the Goldwyn studio when David Hopkins tele- phoned me the news of his father\'s death, and a week or so thereafter Louise Hopkins telephoned from New York to ask me if I would con- sider finishing the work on the book. I said I would do anything I could for Harry\'s memory, but I had no conception of what the task would involve. I knew that this book was to be limited to the war years- and that was the one period when I had close associations with Roose- velt and Hopkins—but I did not know what form the book was taking, nor how far Hopkins had got with it, nor how much of his writing was based on memory and how much on documentation...The list is very large of those whom I have interviewed one or more times, or with whom I have corresponded... I must apologetically lump a large number of names together in alphabetical order: Herbert Agar; Joseph Alsop; Paul Appleby; Frank Bane; Bernard M. Baruch; Lord Beaverbrook; Mrs. Anna Boettiger; Louis Brown- low; General J. H. Burns; Dr. Vannevar Bush; Lord Cherwell; Mar- quis Childs; Grenville Clark; Benjamin V. Cohen; Dr. James B. Co- nant; Captain Granville Conway, USN; Oscar Cox; Wayne Coy; Dr. Samuel H. Cross; Joseph E. Davies; Chester Davis; Clarence Dykstra; Stephen Early; Morris Ernst; Dr. Herbert Evatt; Colonel Philip R. Faymonville; Herbert Feis; Judge Jerome Frank; Justice Felix Frank- furter; Dr. James R. Fulton; Richard V. Gilbert; Dr. Jacob Goldberg; Philip Graham; Lord Halifax; Robert Hannegan; William D. Hassett; Frances Head; General Sir Leslie Hollis; Herschel Johnson; John Kingsbury; Fiorello La Guardia; Thomas W. Lamont; Dr. William Langer; Lord Layton; Lord Leathers; Walter Lippmann; Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart; Oliver Lyttelton; Archibald MacLeish; General Robert McClure: Dr. Ross T. McIntire; Wing Commander D. C. McKinley; Admiral John McCrea; John E. Masten; Charles E. Merriam; Dr. James Alexander Miller; Jean Monnet; Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; Edward R. Murrow; Robert Nathan; David K. Niles; Robert P. Patter- son; Frederick Polangin; Quentin Reynolds; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Elmo Roper; Beardsley Ruml; Bishop Bernard Sheil; Admiral Forrest Sherman; Victor Sholis; Harold Smith; Admiral Harold R. Stark; Sir William Stephenson; Edward Stettinius; Robert Stevens; Raymond Swing; Herbert Bayard Swope; Myron C. Taylor; Dorothy Thompson; Rexford Tugwell; Mrs. Edwin M. Watson; Sumner Welles; Mrs. Wendell Willkie; General Arthur Wilson; Ira Wolfert. I also had a brief talk with Andrei Gromyko. When I told him that I had undertaken to write a book based on the papers of the late Harry Hopkins and that I should like to consult authorities of the Soviet Union in connection with it, he said that such a book might be helpful—and, again, it might not...”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955) was born in New Rochelle, NY. In 1939 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his play, `Abe Lincoln in Illinois`; `The Petrified Forest` is among his other well-known dramas. During World War II, he was the chief of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information (1942-44). From his wartime association with Roosevelt came much of the material for Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History. In 1949 he received the Pulitzer Prize for biography for `Roosevelt and Hopkins.`
CONDITION: This hardcover book of 979 pages was copyright 1948 and is in acceptable condition, its pages all present and tight. Due to its age and subject matter, I imagine that this book might be harder-to-find. Please note: If there was originally a dust jacket, it is no longer present - title page and frontispiece photo appear in the attached scan. Library i.d. remains in and on the book. Book appears to have been library re-bound at some point and sports red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards are clean with edge and corner bumping; typical bumping to top of spine; pages are slightly age yellowed. There is some moisture staining on some of the pages (can be seen on attached scan of fronts and title page) and some moisture curling to pages as well. There is a synopsis of the book pasted in on one of the cover pages - appearing to be, perhaps, from the original dust jacket. None of this detracts from the overall appearance and readability of this 70-year-old volume. It is a good reading copy with no underlining or highlighting. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; United States of America American Presidency government, history, diplomacy, World War II WWII political science politics.
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ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS AN INTIMATE HISTORY by Robert E. Sherwood 1948 1st edition:
$15.00