Christopher O'Sullivan talked about his book, [Harry Hopkins: FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin]. The 2015 Roosevelt Reading Festival was held by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library ...

HARRY HOPKINS AND THE FORGING OF THE ALLIANCE TO DEFEAT HITLER By David L. Roll Oxford University Press, $34.95, 507 pages. Although he never held elective office, ...

Harry Hopkins’ friends say that his genius as an administrator lies in his endless patience with subordinates, his capacity for getting such work as they are capable of out of men whose ...

Harry Hopkins, regarded by many as the second most powerful man in America, occupies a 10-by-18-ft. office in the east wing of the White House. The room is entirely devoid of the usual trappings ...

Ironically, Robert Hopkins, Harry’s son, was at Yalta as the official Signal Corps photographer. “i was a few feet from Stalin throughout the entire photo session,” he wrote me last November.

Under the direction of Harry Hopkins, an enthusiastic ex-social worker who had come from modest means, the WPA would spend more than $11 million in employment relief before it was canceled in 1943.

Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace. Photo: Time Inc, via PARS International. Students of history may recognize a concept I’ll call the Weirdo Theory of Crisis.