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.
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Sherwood snagged the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for this portrait of FDR and Harry Hopkins, the man who helped in negotiations with Churchill, Stalin, and other wartime big shots. This revised edition incorporates new notes by Sherwood as well as a new introduction by Irwin Gellman.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955) was born in New Rochelle, NY. During World War II, he was the chief of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information (1942-44). 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. In 1949 he received the Pulitzer Prize for biography for `Roosevelt and Hopkins.`
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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I bought this book, on some fair measure, due to the review written by Mr. Passos on Amazon's web site.I had heard the name Harry Hopkins for many years, and had the somewhat vague knowedge that Harry Hopkins was an intimate advisor and assistant to Franklin Roosevelt. I was curious when I saw the book at Amazon, and I bought it.
This is an outstanding book, and it easy for me to see why it is a Pulitzer Prize winner. The book is as much about the Roosevelt administration and related national and international history as it is about Messrs. Roosevelt & Hopkins. One of the interesting things about this book is that it was written in 1947;I reminded myself of that throughout my reading. For the most part it is written in the first person by Robert Sherwood, a gifted author who worked with Hopkins while in the Roosevelt administration. I gave a lot of credibility to the book because of the author's proximity to Hopkins and Rooseveltas well as the short time span between the actual events and the publishing of the book. The book is well written by a man that had substantial prior experience in writing show business type material. In a number of instances the author puts himself on the scene of events, but by no means limits the book to his experiences with Roosevelt & Hopkins. There is considerable detail...sometimes when I read a review that makes that claim I suspect that I will encounter much minutiae with boredom to follow. Not the case here; there are many interesting explanitions, facts, discussions, etc. I found myself continuously engaged as some of the most compelling history of the U.S. unfolded at the hands of the author.
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Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins - Fifty Years Later,
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I first read this book when I was in high school in 1952. For several years I had been captivated by politics and political biography, reading everything I could get my hands on. Sherwood's ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS was the best. In the more than half century since, my passion for political writing and biography has continued unabated, and on many occasions I have recommended this book to others. Since 1991 I have traveled to Russia dozens of times and frequently recommend this book to English speaking Russian academics and politicians there. Every person to whom I have recommended it, here or in Russia, has seen fit to tell me how much they appreciated the book and the recommendation. Recently I began to wonder though. Was the book really as good as I recalled it from my first and only reading over 58 years ago? So I re-read it. It stood the test of time and of memory. It was even better than I recalled. It is an old and good friend, as alive, vibrant, and informative today as if all that the monumental and world-changing people and events described in it had happened yesterday.
Kenneth E. MacWilliams New York City
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The book is so good that it reads like a Novel.,
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I started reading this book and couldn't stop reading. When you finish reading it you miss the main characters. You would like to meet Mr. Hopkins in person, but unfortunately that is impossible. The facts, ideas and the history in the book demonstrates that America had the most important political leader of the XXth century as president during second world war. My personal opinion is that Mr. Roosevelt is the man that was responsible for truly changing the direction that history was about to take. I read a translated version of the book.
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