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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D; BUHITE, RUSSELL D (EDITOR); LEVY, DAVID W (EDITOR). ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D; BUHITE, RUSSELL D (EDITOR); LEVY, DAVID W (EDITOR). F D R's Fireside Chats.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: . s Softcover. Brand new book.
On thirty-one occasions during his presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on radio to talk things over with the people of the United States. Those fireside chats, characterized by a disarming frankness and an informal and conversational tone, represent an unprecedented presidential attempt to achieve intimacy with the nation. In these addresses the president touched upon all of the issues surrounding the Depression and the New Deal and upon the events, fears, and hopes that were part of the American experience of World War II. Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy have gathered the fireside chats for the first time in a single volume and, by careful attention to recordings and stenographic reports, present the speeches exactly as Roosevelt spoke them. In a general introduction and two additional essays, the editors discuss the importance of Roosevelt in American political history, the rise of the radio as a political tool, the issues of the day, and the way Roosevelt, aided by speech writers and advisers, prepared and delivered the chats.
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ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D; BUHITE, RUSSELL D (EDITOR); LEVY, DAVID W (EDITOR). F D R's Fireside Chats.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman:1992. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
To read the fireside chats a half century after they were delivered is to reenter a world of economic disaster, social reform, and international danger. It is also to hear, once again, the voice of one of the most skilled speakers and trusted leaders in American history. "It is astonishing that the texts of the fireside chats have not previously been published in a single volume. Taken as a whole, they provide a wonderfully informative view of Roosevelt's concerns and his oratorical style. The chats make for interesting, indeed, compelling,reading...The editors have made a real contribution by indicating where the spoken versions differ from the published texts, and by providing useful, and authoritative, notes for each of the firside chats."-Richard Polenberg, Cornell University
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24.95 USD
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