''Our American Way of Living': Lucy Richardson Milligan and American Radio on the eve of World War II'. Issue 4 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lockley, Tim
• Is Part Of: Media history. Volume 26:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 457
• Page End: 471
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: United States -- radio -- metropolitan opera -- propaganda -- World War II -- women; Mass media -- History -- Periodicals; Press -- History -- Periodicals; Journalism -- History -- Periodicals; 070.09
• DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2019.1597629
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1368-8804

Abstract

Abstract : Lucy Richardson Milligan organised a series of radio talks entitled 'Our American Way of Living' to be broadcast during the intermissions of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts in 1940-41. She deliberately set out to counter fascist propaganda and embedded her talks within a program that had a very large audience. By doing so she co-opted one of the techniques of Nazi propagandists and did so in the year before the US entered WWII.