The First Lady Of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The First Lady Of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts
By (Author) Stephen Drury Smith
Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The New Press
The New Press
14th October 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
973.917092
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
418g
Description
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.
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