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Canada and the United States

June Hopkins. Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer. (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History.) New York: St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. x, 271. $29.95.

In February 1946, Frances Perkins wrote for Survey Monthly after Harry Hopkins's death that "The People Mattered" to him. She had heard Hopkins say many times, "You've got to treat the people right." June Hopkins traces the development of her grandfather's attitudes about welfare and relates how he became the nation's best known social worker by 1933. No history of professional social work nor of the New Deal omits Hopkins. After publication of Robert Sherwood's magisterial Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (1948), the first full biography of Hopkins did not appear until 1963; the most recent, George McJimsey's Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy, was published in 1987. None of the studies, June Hopkins rightly contends, deals as fully as hers with the pre-New Deal evolution of Hopkins's overriding view that "human welfare is the first and final task of government. It has no other" (p. 2). . . .

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