FDR's First Fireside Chat

"I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States..." Thus began not only the first of Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated radio addresses, collectively called Fireside Chats, but also the birth of the media era of the rhetorical presidency. Humorist Will Rogers later said that the president took "such a dry subject as banking and made everyone understand it, even the bankers." Roosevelt also took a giant step toward restoring confidence in the nation's banks and, eventually, in its economy. Amos Kiewe tells the story of the First Fireside Chat, the context in which it was constructed, the events leading to the radio address, and the impact it had on the American people and the nation's economy. Roosevelt told America, "The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public - on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system." Kiewe succinctly demonstrates how the rhetoric of the soon-to-be-famous First Fireside Chat laid the groundwork for that support and the recovery of American capitalism.

ISBN 1585445975   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781585445974 (What's this?)   Pages 160 Publisher Texas A & M University Press   Volumes 001 Imprint Texas A & M University Press   Published in College Station Format Hardback   Series title Library of Presidential Rhetoric Publication date 15 Dec 2007   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress HG2461   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 332.1097309043   Academic level General

		Address of President Roosevelt by Radio, March 12, 1933		1
Ch. 1		Radio Roosevelt		19
Ch. 2		The Winter of Discontent		26
Ch. 3		The Run on the Banks		37
Ch. 4		A Banking Holiday		48
Ch. 5		Crafting the Emergency Banking Act		59
Ch. 6		The First Fireside Chat		74
Ch. 7		The Citizens' Letters		99
Ch. 8		Saving Capitalism		126

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