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Franklin Roosevelt and the medium of radio:
Franklin Roosevelt's election to the presidency in 1932 coincided with radio's own coming-of-age. From its tentative commercial beginnings in the mid-1920s, radio had emerged as a central part of American life. FDR's personality was made from broadcasting, and his presidential "fireside chats" communicated warmth, confidence, humor, and purpose to Depression hearths. |