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Preface | xi | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Radio and Thirties America | 1 | |
Part I | The "Radio President" | 7 |
1 | Roosevelt and Radio | 9 |
Roosevelt's Views on Radio | 9 | |
Roosevelt's Special Relationship with Radio | 14 | |
The Roosevelt Method | 15 | |
2 | Campaigning by Radio | 25 |
Roosevelt's Early Political Career and Governorship | 28 | |
The 1932 Campaign | 29 | |
The 1936 Campaign | 32 | |
Imitating the Master | 37 | |
The 1940 Campaign | 39 | |
The 1944 Campaign | 45 | |
3 | Selling the Domestic Agenda | 57 |
The Voice of Confidence | 57 | |
Roosevelt's First Inaugural | 61 | |
The Banking Crisis | 63 | |
Evaluating the First Two Months of the New Deal: The Fireside Chat of May 7, 1933 | 65 | |
The Record of the First "Hundred Days": July 24, 1933, and October 22, 1933 | 67 | |
Fending Off Attack: June 28, 1934 | 68 | |
Fireside Chats of April 28, 1935, October 12, 1937, and April 14, 1938 | 69 | |
Domestic Success | 71 | |
4 | Domestic Challenges | 75 |
The Plan to Pack the Supreme Court | 75 | |
Purging the Democratic Party | 79 | |
Huey Long | 82 | |
Father Coughlin | 84 | |
5 | Selling the Foreign Policy Agenda | 89 |
Cash-and-Carry | 91 | |
"The Development of Our Defense Program" | 92 | |
Lend-Lease | 96 | |
Unlimited National Emergency | 100 | |
The Greer Incident | 102 | |
Struggle with the Isolationists | 107 | |
War with Japan | 116 | |
Foreign Policy Success | 120 | |
6 | The Death of FDR | 123 |
Part II | "We Take You Now To..." | 129 |
7 | Early History of Broadcast News | 131 |
Radio News Is Born | 132 | |
The "Crime of the Century" | 133 | |
The Press-Radio War | 136 | |
8 | Radio Covers Domestic Events and Crises | 139 |
Natural Disaster | 139 | |
The Hindenburg Explosion | 141 | |
Explorer and Squalus | 144 | |
Covering the 1940 Campaign | 145 | |
Radio Discussion Programs | 148 | |
"Time Marches On" | 150 | |
9 | Radio Covers the World | 153 |
Early Foreign News Reporting | 153 | |
"Ten Days That Shook the Ether" | 154 | |
Anschluss | 158 | |
Munich Crisis | 160 | |
Closer to the Brink | 173 | |
The Polish Crisis | 175 | |
The Phoney War | 180 | |
France's Agony | 182 | |
Britain Under Siege | 185 | |
A World at War | 189 | |
Conclusion | 192 | |
Part III | "Incredible As It May Seem..." | 195 |
10 | Orson Welles and the "War of the Worlds" | 197 |
Precedents | 197 | |
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater | 201 | |
Preparation for War of the Worlds | 204 | |
11 | The Broadcast | 207 |
12 | The Public Reaction | 219 |
Panic in the Streets | 219 | |
Popular Gullibility? | 222 | |
The Welles Plan | 224 | |
13 | "It Was All So Real" | 229 |
Manipulation | 229 | |
Historical Environment | 233 | |
Wonders of Science | 236 | |
Tuning in Late | 237 | |
14 | Aftermath | 241 |
Censorship | 241 | |
CBS Responds | 243 | |
Self-Regulation | 244 | |
Lessons | 246 | |
The State of American Preparedness | 248 | |
The Credibility Gap | 250 | |
The Legacy | 251 | |
15 | Conclusion | 255 |
Notes | 257 | |
Bibliography | 287 | |
Selected Radio Broadcasts | 295 | |
Index | 303 |
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