FDR's Fireside Chats

by Russell D. Buhite (Editor), David W. Levy (Editor)

Overview

The first complete collection of FDR's historic conversations with the American people, this volume contains the entire texts of the 31 "fireside chats" that Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered over the radio during his 13 years as president, and with which he reassured and mobilized millions of listeners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140179057
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.07(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Russell D. Buhite, Professor and Head of the Department of History in the University of Tennessee, holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He is the author of Soviet-American Relations in Asia, 1945-1954, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

David W. Levy is retired as the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Professor of Modern American History and David Ross Boyd Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive and Mark Twain: The Divided Mind of America’s Best-Loved Writer and coeditor of seven volumes of the letters of Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis.

Russell D. Buhite, Professor and Head of the Department of History in the University of Tennessee, holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He is the author of Soviet-American Relations in Asia, 1945-1954, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Editorial Reviews

Roosevelt's 31 radio fireside chats are gathered together, with a general introduction that discusses the importance of Roosevelt in American political history, the rise of the radio as a political tool, and the way the president--aided by speech writers and advisers--prepared and delivered the chats. Issues of the day are explored in two additional introductory essays. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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