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The First Lady of Radio : Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts.

Smith, Stephen Drury.

The First Lady of Radio : Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts.

Smith, Stephen Drury.

9781620970492

Smith, Stephen Drury.

1 online resource (169 pages)

Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Transcripts -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. "The Girl of Today" -- 2. "Woman's Career vs. Woman's Home" -- 3. "A Mother's Responsibility as a Citizen" -- 4. "Concluding Broadcast" -- 5. "Negro Education" -- 6. "When Will a Woman BecomePresident of the U.S.?" -- 7. "Shall a Woman Be Herself?" -- 8. "A Day in the White House" -- 9. "Peace Through Education" -- 10. "World Court Broadcast" -- 11. "Making the Wheels Go'Round in the White House" -- 12. "Keeping House on a Budgetin the White House" -- 13. "WhatIt Means to Be theWife of the President" -- 14. "Education of a Daughterfor the Twentieth Century" -- 15. "Problems of Working Women" -- 16. "Life in a Tenement" -- 17. "Eleanor Roosevelt Interviewed on theCauses and Cures of War" -- 18. "Domestic Workers andGovernment Housing" -- 19. "Questions About the White House" -- 20. "Democracy" -- 21. "Political Conventionsand Campaign Trips" -- 22. "Planning for War andPostwar Periods" -- 23. "Peace, Democracy, and Ideals" -- 24. "Address to theDemocratic National Convention" -- 25. "Shall We Arm Merchant Ships?" -- 26. "Freedom of Speech" -- 27. "Propaganda" -- 28. "Isolationists" -- 29. "Pearl Harbor Attack" -- 30. "Civilian Defense" -- 31. "Preparedness for War" -- 32. "Enemy Aliens andWomen in War Work" -- 33. "Answering Her Critics" -- 34. "Broadcast from Liverpool" -- 35. "Wartime Conditions in Great Britain" -- 36."D-Day Message" -- 37. "V-E Day Radio Message" -- 38. "V-J Day Radio Message" -- Notes.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, -- 1884-1962 -- Juvenile literature.

Electronic books.

Cook, Blanche Wiesen.

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