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Author:
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962, author.
Title:
The first lady of radio : Eleanor Roosevelt's historic broadcasts / edited by Stephen Drury Smith ; with a foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook.
Publisher:
The New Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
Roosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962--Oratory--Sources.
Roosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962--Political and social views--Sources.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945--Sources.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Sources.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Sources.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Other Authors:
Smith, Stephen, 1960- editor.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen, writer of foreword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-249).
Contents:
"The girl of today" -- "Woman's career vs. woman's home" -- "A mother's responsibility as a citizen" -- "Concluding broadcast" -- "Negro education" -- "When will a woman become president of the U.S.?" -- "Shall a woman be herself?" -- "A day in the White House" -- "Peace through education" -- "World Court broadcast" -- "Making the wheels go 'round in the White House" -- "Keeping house on a budget in the White House" -- "What it means to be the wife of the president" -- "Education of a daughter for the twentieth century" -- "Problems of working women" -- "Life in a tenement" -- "Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed on the causes and cures of war" -- "Domestic workers and government housing" -- "Questions about the White House" -- "Democracy" -- "Political conventions and campaign trips" -- "Planning for war and postwar periods" -- "Peace, democracy and ideals" -- "Address to the Democratic National Convention" -- "Shall we arm merchant ships?" -- "Freedom of speech" -- "Propaganda" -- "Isolationists" -- "Pearl Harbor attack" -- "Civilian defense" -- "Preparedness for war" -- "Enemy aliens and women in war work" -- "Answering her critics" -- "Broadcast from Liverpool" -- "Wartime conditions in Great Britain" -- "D-Day message" -- "V-E Day radio message" -- "V-J Day radio message."
ISBN:
1620970422 (hc)
9781620970423 (hc)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)873007875
LCCN:
2014020459
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

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