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A scholarly biography of one of the great American policy makers and innovators of the 20th century. Hopkins was among the most powerful advisors to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Second World War. He was in on the creation of some of the boldest experiments in social welfare reform and government assistance to the poor in the nation's history. And he headed many of the national relief agencies that helped to carry millions of Americans through the Great Depression and left enduring legacies to current social policies. Yet this man, so identified with succor and relief in such American cities as New Orleans, Atlanta, and New York, was a son of small-town Iowa. What propelled him from modest origins to the pinnacle of national influence is the subject of this academic study by his granddaughter. Adding to existing scholarship about the man and the work in which he was for decades so deeply involved, Hopkins (History/Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.) emphasizes her grandfather's upbringing and education in the world of Grinnell, Iowa, where he also attended its renowned college and drank deep draughts of the Social Gospel and Christian activism. In concentrating on his preNew Deal social workthe freshest part of her bookHopkins reveals her ancestor's openness to new thought and experience and his easy respect for and reliance on women for ideas and guidance. There's still, however, a whiff of the dissertation about the book; we don't get as much sense of who this man was, strange when the biographer is also a close family member. Nevertheless, Hopkins's research adds considerably to the history of modern American welfare policy. (7 b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of governmental aid and care for impoverished Americans. During the Progressive era, Hopkins worked as an advocate for and administrator of work-relief and widows' pensions in New York City. Those formative experiences profoundly influenced his contribution to welfare legislation during the New Deal years - including the landmark Social Security Act of 1935, the bedrock of the American welfare state. In Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer, his granddaughter, June Hopkins, not only broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents that led to that signal legislation, but also sheds considerable light on the present welfare debate and the life and career of one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century.
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A scholarly biography of one of the great American policy makers and innovators of the 20th century. Hopkins was among the most powerful advisors to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Second World War. He was in on the creation of some of the boldest experiments in social welfare reform and government assistance to the poor in the nation's history. And he headed many of the national relief agencies that helped to carry millions of Americans through the Great Depression and left enduring legacies to current social policies. Yet this man, so identified with succor and relief in such American cities as New Orleans, Atlanta, and New York, was a son of small-town Iowa. What propelled him from modest origins to the pinnacle of national influence is the subject of this academic study by his granddaughter. Adding to existing scholarship about the man and the work in which he was for decades so deeply involved, Hopkins (History/Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.) emphasizes her grandfather's upbringing and education in the world of Grinnell, Iowa, where he also attended its renowned college and drank deep draughts of the Social Gospel and Christian activism. In concentrating on his preNew Deal social workthe freshest part of her bookHopkins reveals her ancestor's openness to new thought and experience and his easy respect for and reliance on women for ideas and guidance. There's still, however, a whiff of the dissertation about the book; we don't get as much sense of who this man was, strange when the biographer is also a close family member. Nevertheless, Hopkins's research adds considerably to the history of modern American welfare policy. (7 b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of governmental aid and care for impoverished Americans. During the Progressive era, Hopkins worked as an advocate for and administrator of work-relief and widows' pensions in New York City. Those formative experiences profoundly influenced his contribution to welfare legislation during the New Deal years - including the landmark Social Security Act of 1935, the bedrock of the American welfare state. In Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer, his granddaughter, June Hopkins, not only broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents that led to that signal legislation, but also sheds considerable light on the present welfare debate and the life and career of one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century.
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ONE HOT SUMMER DAY IN 1935, federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins presented his plan for alleviating the effects of the Great Depression to a group of shirt-sleeved Iowa farmers, not noted for their liberal ideas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charities controversy, charities investigation, economic security bill, public outdoor relief, federal relief administrator, employment assurance, economic security program, government jobs programs, private charitable agencies, civilian relief, public almshouses, needy unemployed, social work career, pension movement, scientific philanthropy, private relief agencies, receiving public funds, cash relief, needy mothers, scientific charity, civil works administration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harry Hopkins, New Deal, Christodora House, Red Cross, John Kingsbury, Grinnell College, United States, Ethel Gross, Great Depression, Home Service, Social Gospel, State Board of Charities, Adah Hopkins, William Matthews, Social Security Act, Advisory Committee, Frances Perkins, Board of Child Welfare, Gulf Division, Homer Folks, Progressive Era, Children's Bureau, Mayor Mitchel, President Roosevelt, Sophie Loeb New!
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ONE HOT SUMMER DAY IN 1935, federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins presented his plan for alleviating the effects of the Great Depression to a group of shirt-sleeved Iowa farmers, not noted for their liberal ideas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charities controversy, charities investigation, economic security bill, public outdoor relief, federal relief administrator, employment assurance, economic security program, government jobs programs, private charitable agencies, civilian relief, public almshouses, needy unemployed, social work career, pension movement, scientific philanthropy, private relief agencies, receiving public funds, cash relief, needy mothers, scientific charity, civil works administration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harry Hopkins, New Deal, Christodora House, Red Cross, John Kingsbury, Grinnell College, United States, Ethel Gross, Great Depression, Home Service, Social Gospel, State Board of Charities, Adah Hopkins, William Matthews, Social Security Act, Advisory Committee, Frances Perkins, Board of Child Welfare, Gulf Division, Homer Folks, Progressive Era, Children's Bureau, Mayor Mitchel, President Roosevelt, Sophie Loeb New!
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- Social Policy in the United States by Theda Skocpol on 4 pages
- Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States by Seth Koven on 4 pages
- The Rhetoric of Christian Socialism by Paul H. Boase in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Richard D. Polenberg in Back Matter
- Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg on page 348
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