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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
510 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the linchpin in FDR's--and America's--relationships with Churchill and Stalin, and spoke with an authority second only to the president's. Gaunt, nearly spectral, and malnourished following an operation to remove part of his stomach, the newly widowed Hopkins accepted the president's invitation to move into the White...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 694 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall--America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington--whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World War II's "organizer of victory." Harry Truman said he was "the greatest military man that this country ever produced." Today, in our era of failed leadership, few...
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