No Time for Glory: The Story of a Dismissed Legend (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781420803365)

This is an incredible story of a once obscure social welfare worker's rise from a deathbed and subsequent catapult into a position of worldwide power and influence. Harry Hopkins was an improbable hero living on borrowed time at the epicenter of world chaos during World War II. By means of exceptional cunning, sustenance, valor, and patriotism, his achievements and services alter the course of history during the mid-twentieth century. His noble quest for the plight of the poor, the weak, and the hungry are surpassed only by a passion to defeat the tyrannical. daring to live only to die for altruistic causes of country and humanity. These events of intrigue mined from archives of faded footnotes, when mended in chronological order and held to the light of a new era reveals the tribulations of a forsaken legend.. "No Time for Glory" "This in hope of preserving from decay the remberance of what men have done; Of preventing great and wonderful actions from losing their meed of glory; And withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud." Herodotus... 440 BC

Author: D. M. Foy
ISBN-10: 1420803360
ISBN-13: 9781420803365
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2004
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d