Harry Hopkins spent 20 years of his life as a social worker in New York before Franklin D. Roosevelt invited him to head the Works Progress Administration. This biography by Vernw W. Newton and Frank Nesbitt describes Hopkins’ leadership of the WPA and other federal programs, his work on the Lend-Lease program and how his relationships with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin helped forge the post-World War II era. People who knew Hopkins also comment on his policies and personality. Narrator Walter Cr onkite. Educational Film Center and The Newton Group.