19598X1 First edition. Unstated. R. E. Burdick, Inc., Fair Lawn: 1974. 221 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Inscribed by the author to a friend. Here is the record - largly ignored, forgotten or generally unknown today - of Harry Hopkins as the architect and engineer of a radically new social policy that disturbed Calvinists, Freudians, Chambers of Commerce and conservative politicians...and became a major factor in blunting the forces of social revolution in the 1930s. Shows how Hopkins, beginning with Roosevelt when FDR was New York State governor, overturned the traditional philosophy of personal responsibility (and guilt for one's joblessness or inability to work...and substituted the humane concept of state and federal responsibility toward those who were unemployed for any reason. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0913638072 $124.25USD
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