Eleanor Roosevelt's Views on Diplomacy and Democracy

Dario Fazzi is a historian of US social and foreign policy history and works at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies. He studies US cold-war relations and his main field of research lies in peace history and transatlantic history. He is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Voice of Conscience (Palgrave, 2016) and has published articles, book chapters, and reviews on nuclear culture, peace movements, youth protests, transatlantic crossings, and base politics.Anya Luscombe is associate professor of media at University College Roosevelt, where she teaches Rhetoric and Journalism, and affiliated researcher at the University of Utrecht’s Department of Media and Culture Studies. Her research interests include radio history, cultural history and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is the author of BBC Radio News, from the swinging sixties to the turbulent noughties (2013) and has published articles, book chapters and reviews on media, (transnational) broadcasting and women’s history.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Great National and Transnational Communicator: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Use of Radio to Promote Peace and Understanding.- 3. “Mrs. Roosevelt Goes on Tour”: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Soft Diplomacy During World War II.- 4. Eleanor Roosevelt in Yugoslavia Between Wedge Strategy and Cold War Internationalism.- 5. Behind the Iron Curtain: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Visit to Poland in 1960.- 6. Liberalism Meets Radicalism: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Internationalization of the Black Liberation Struggle.- 7. Dancing Barefoot and Politicizing Dance at the White House: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham’s Collaboration During the Rise of Fascism in Europe.- 8. “I Know What You are Doing for Other People Too”: Dutch Journalist Mary Pos Reaches Out to Eleanor Roosevelt.- 9. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication as Gendered Premediation of a Female Presidency.- 10. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Nature: Bridging Conservationism with Environmentalism.