Sandro Gerbi: The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt, Gebunden
The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt
- Radio Journalist Lisa Sergio
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- Übersetzung:
- Will Schutt
- Verlag:
- Springer-Verlag GmbH, 01/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783032084958
- Artikelnummer:
- 12451460
- Umfang:
- 286 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- X, 286 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color.
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 16.1.2026
- Serie:
- Italian and Italian American Studies
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
On the evening of May 9, 1936, from Piazza Venezia in Rome, a slim, elegant woman broadcast in perfect English Mussolini's famous speech on the conquest of Ethiopia. Her name was Lisa Sergio (1905-1989), at the time described by foreign newspapers as "the golden voice" of Mussolini. This work documents for the first time her life and work, both in Italy and in the US. A Florentine journalist, with American parents, in summer 1937 she was fired from her job at the Propaganda Ministry, most likely for gossiping about a brief affair with Mussolini's son in law, Galeazzo Ciano.
Protected by Guglielmo Marconi, she moved to New York and resumed broadcasting as a political commentator, filling her new life with an impressive network of relationships, 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 re-invented herself as a travelling lecturer. She never married.
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