Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Transcripts

Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Introduction

  1.  “The Girl of Today”

  2.  “Woman’s Career vs. Woman’s Home”

  3.  “A Mother’s Responsibility as a Citizen”

  4.  “Concluding Broadcast”

  5.  “Negro Education”

  6.  “When Will a Woman Become President of the U.S.?”

  7.  “Shall a Woman Be Herself?”

  8.  “A Day in the White House”

  9.  “Peace Through Education”

10.  “World Court Broadcast”

11.  “Making the Wheels Go ’Round in the White House”

12.  “Keeping House on a Budget in the White House”

13.  “What It Means to Be the Wife of the President”

14.  “Education of a Daughter for the Twentieth Century”

15.  “Problems of Working Women”

16.  “Life in a Tenement”

17.  “Eleanor Roosevelt Interviewed on the Causes and Cures of War”

18.  “Domestic Workers and Government Housing”

19.  “Questions About the White House”

20.  “Democracy”

21.  “Political Conventions and Campaign Trips”

22.  “Planning for War and Postwar Periods”

23.  “Peace, Democracy, and Ideals”

24.  “Address to the Democratic National Convention”

25.  “Shall We Arm Merchant Ships?”

26.  “Freedom of Speech”

27.  “Propaganda”

28.  “Isolationists”

29.  “Pearl Harbor Attack”

30.  “Civilian Defense”

31.  “Preparedness for War”

32.  “Enemy Aliens and Women in War Work”

33.  “Answering Her Critics”

34.  “Broadcast from Liverpool”

35.  “Wartime Conditions in Great Britain”

36.  “D-Day Message”

37.  “V-E Day Radio Message”

38.  “V-J Day Radio Message”

Notes