The First Lady of Radio
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The First Lady of Radio

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Historic Broadcasts

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eBook - ePub

The First Lady of Radio

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Historic Broadcasts

About this book

On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, as a stunned nation gathered around the radio to hear the latest about Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly Sunday evening national radio program. At 6:45pm, listeners to the NBC Blue network heard the First Lady’s calm, measured voice explain that the president was conferring with his top advisors to address the crisis. It was a remarkable broadcast. With America on the verge of war, the nation heard first not from their president, but from his wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt's groundbreaking career as a professional radio broadcaster is almost entirely forgotten. As First Lady, she hosted a series of prime time programs that revolutionized how Americans related to their chief executive and his family. Now, The First Lady of Radio rescues these broadcasts from the archives, presenting a carefully curated sampling of transcripts of Roosevelt's most famous and influential radio shows, edited and set into context by award-winning author and radio producer Stephen Drury Smith. With a foreword by Roosevelt's famed biographer, historian Blanche Wiesen Cook, The First Lady of Radio is both a historical treasure and a fascinating window onto the power and the influence of a pioneering First Lady.

This e-book includes thirteen rarely heard original recordings of Eleanor Roosevelt from her prime-time programs.

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Information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781620970423
eBook ISBN
9781620970584
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on the Transcripts
  8. Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. “The Girl of Today”
  11. 2. “Woman’s Career vs. Woman’s Home”
  12. 3. “A Mother’s Responsibility as a Citizen”
  13. 4. “Concluding Broadcast”
  14. 5. “Negro Education”
  15. 6. “When Will a Woman Become President of the U.S.?”
  16. 7. “Shall a Woman Be Herself?”
  17. 8. “A Day in the White House”
  18. 9. “Peace Through Education”
  19. 10. “World Court Broadcast”
  20. 11. “Making the Wheels Go ’Round in the White House”
  21. 12. “Keeping House on a Budget in the White House”
  22. 13. “What It Means to Be the Wife of the President”
  23. 14. “Education of a Daughter for the Twentieth Century”
  24. 15. “Problems of Working Women”
  25. 16. “Life in a Tenement”
  26. 17. “Eleanor Roosevelt Interviewed on the Causes and Cures of War”
  27. 18. “Domestic Workers and Government Housing”
  28. 19. “Questions About the White House”
  29. 20. “Democracy”
  30. 21. “Political Conventions and Campaign Trips”
  31. 22. “Planning for War and Postwar Periods”
  32. 23. “Peace, Democracy, and Ideals”
  33. 24. “Address to the Democratic National Convention”
  34. 25. “Shall We Arm Merchant Ships?”
  35. 26. “Freedom of Speech”
  36. 27. “Propaganda”
  37. 28. “Isolationists”
  38. 29. “Pearl Harbor Attack”
  39. 30. “Civilian Defense”
  40. 31. “Preparedness for War”
  41. 32. “Enemy Aliens and Women in War Work”
  42. 33. “Answering Her Critics”
  43. 34. “Broadcast from Liverpool”
  44. 35. “Wartime Conditions in Great Britain”
  45. 36. “D-Day Message”
  46. 37. “V-E Day Radio Message”
  47. 38. “V-J Day Radio Message”
  48. Notes
  49. About the Author