The golden voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt : radio journalist Lisa Sergio /
On the evening of May 9, 1936, a slim, elegant woman stood in Rome’s Piazza Venezia and, in perfect English, broadcast Mussolini’s famous speech on the conquest of Ethiopia. Her name was Lisa Sergio (1905–1989), her nickname “the golden voice” of Mussolini. A Florentine journalist, with American par...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Italian. |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2026].
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| Series: | Italian and Italian American studies.
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| Summary: | On the evening of May 9, 1936, a slim, elegant woman stood in Rome’s Piazza Venezia and, in perfect English, broadcast Mussolini’s famous speech on the conquest of Ethiopia. Her name was Lisa Sergio (1905–1989), her nickname “the golden voice” of Mussolini. A Florentine journalist, with American parents, she was fired from her job at the Propaganda Ministry the following summer, most likely for gossiping about a brief affair with her boss, Mussolini’s son in law, Galeazzo Ciano. Aided by Nobel-winning Guglielmo Marconi, she established herself in the United States and resumed broadcasting, now as a liberal commentator, surrounding herself with a network of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt. After the war, she was accused by the FBI of Communist sympathies and in the McCarthy years banished from the radio. Tired of this situation, in 1960, she moved to Washington, where she reinvented herself as a travelling lecturer in current affairs. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3032084954 9783032084958 |