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.

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 ...

Seldom has such masterly history been written so well and so soon after the events it recounts. At his death early in 1946, Harry Hopkins left a vast amount of documentary material -- letters, ...

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.