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

Stephen Drury Smith (Editor) and Blanche Wiesen Cook (Foreword)

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On the afternoon of 7 December 1941, as a stunned nation gathered to hear the news about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly radio programme. Now, her ground-breaking career as a radio broadcaster is almost entirely forgotten. As First Lady, she hosted a series of programs that revolutionised how Americans related to their chief executive and his family. The First Lady of Radio rescues these broadcasts from the archives, presenting a carefully curated sampling of transcripts of Roosevelt's most famous radio shows.
  • ISBN10 162097049X
  • ISBN13 9781620970492
  • Publish Date 14 October 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint New Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 272
  • Language English