No Time for Glory

Herein lays an obscure shadowy figure of a man, an expiring government welfare official teetering on the edge of life… hardly a candidate for any future distinction. Nevertheless, with unflagging perseverance this half-dead, New York social worker, born and bred in humble environs of Sioux City, Iowa arises from his deathbed and proceeds to mingle with and affect Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers, Dictators and Warlords of the world.  Dramatic covert missions and back channel politics course his rapid rise to positions of international power and influence. The zenith of his life story occurs in a time window when collapsing world economies give birth to a maelstrom of radical political ideologies. It is an epoch of demagogues whose dictatorial rule and festering despotism ignites mankind’s greatest conflagration--- World War II.  Our protagonist forgoes his fleeting life in the very epicenter of world chaos.  His intrepid powers of cunning, sustenance, valor, and meritorious services alter the very fabric of world history during twelve years of the Twentieth Century.  Destiny paves a long perilous road but fortitude, cunning, and unbridled patriotism are his drivers… via Washington, London, Scotland, Moscow, Cairo, Algiers, Teheran, Ireland, Quebec, Yalta, Rome, Paris, and Berlin.  He travels not as a common tourist but as the personal representative of the President of the United States dispatched on secret missions into distant war-torn areas of the globe.  He flies in the face of death dodging barrages of artillery-fire from enemy warships over territories of Nazis, Communists, and Fascists.  His mission and objective: to meet and weld together the major powers of the world for the purpose of victory over transgression.  Harry’s political skills as a broker of people, humanitarian, statesman, covert warrior, and fiery patriot catapult him to unprecedented global influence. His is not a legacy of fame, fortune, or glory but rather a noble pursuit for causes of the weak, the poor, and a fierce passion for confronting the tyrannical….  A life absolutely dedicated to the service of his country. 

Mindful that truth is often stranger than fiction; we respectfully offer you the remarkable story of the unheralded Harry L. Hopkins.