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MythsogynyEleanor Roosevelt pt 4: "Then remaining silent is cowardly.""If silence seems to give approval then remaining silent is cowardly." - Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day September 1944.And now, dear listeners, C takes us on a voyage through the final years of Eleanor's life. From being a delegate at the first ever UN, to becoming the strongest champion for human right's we have ever witnessed. Eleanor took on huge challenges, built bridges, and never, ever stopped speaking out for what was right. She wrote more, politicked more, and in the end left a legacy of activism that would be a fine example for us all to follow...
2026-01-262h 59MythsogynyEleanor Roosevelt pt 3: "But For The Honor Of Our Country."Continuing the epic journey into the life of the finest first lady we've ever had, C takes us through Eleanor's White House years. Detailing her tumultuous relationship with Lorena "Hick" Hickok, Mrs. Nesbitt's terrible food, hot dogs with royalty, and the hard years of the depression. Throughout it all, Eleanor shined as a tireless beacon of hope for an exhausted nation that often did not know where our next meal was coming from. A steady voice helping embolden hearts as her hand helped to guide this nation right into WW2. She spoke reasonably about some of our most shameful...
2025-10-212h 45MythsogynyEleanor Roosevelt pt. 2: "You Gain Strength, Courage, and Confidence..."“...by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.In episode 2 of our Ken Burn's style odyssey about Eleanor, Chesnaye covers the roaring 20s. Flappers, teapot dome, tariffs, and of course the lesbians arrive! We got hundred year old political smackdowns coming your way along with some woodworking because what are lesbians without woodworking, right? So sit back, grab a nice hot dog, and get ready to dig into the next phase of Eleanor Roosevelt's life and find out how she helped shape yours today!Resources & Reading:
2025-08-312h 56
Tony Basilio - Book Corner7-20-2015 Jan Jarboe Russell (The Train To Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program)
2024-05-1035 min
Women of PowerEp 3: Lady Bird Johnson: Attaining Power By Being #2In this episode, we do something different: we cover a woman whose power was entirely derived from her husband. We discuss how Lady Bird achieved her ambitions by fighting hard for her marriage to the most powerful man of her time, President Lyndon B. Johnson. We also dive into the political strategies they used to propel his career into the White House.
Sources:
Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia E. Sweig
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volumes 1-3, by...
2024-03-0826 min
Unpaused the PodcastS6, Ep 41 - Eleanor Roosevelt RevisitedEleanor Roosevelt conducted a parallel life beyond the view of most of the American people, despite occupying the most prominent role for a woman in the country at that time. She maintained two different apartments in Washington Square in New York before and after the White House years and thereby opened the way to a host of new friends and renewed purpose. ER’s reinvention was a remarkable one, sparked, on one reading, by physically removing herself from the constraints of husband and family and surrounding herself with a coterie of women who rejoiced in the intellectual, the cultural an...
2022-08-1817 min
New Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenEleanor in the Village by Jan Jarboe RussellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleanor in the Village Author: Jan Jarboe Russell Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “riveting and enlightening account” (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt—when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America’s First Lady. Hundreds of books have been written about FDR and Eleanor, both together and separately, but yet she remains a compelling and elusiv...
2021-03-3003 min
The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 499 John AgaAvid reader, longtime listener Interview starts at 12:45 and ends at 43:20 "My ideal Kindle would have real buttons and would have audio support, so that you could do immersion reading along with just straight reading." News "Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless Amazon Go stores this year" by Jason Del Rey at Recode - February 22, 2018 "Prime Members Now Earn 5% Back When Shopping At Whole Foods Market Using the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card" - press release February 20, 2018 Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card "...
2018-02-2444 min
History Author ShowH5F: Jan Jarboe Russell – The Train to Crystal CityMarch 11, 2016 - Today’s history author, Jan Jarboe Russell, revisits the dark period of World War Two when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the infamous Executive order 9066. You may recall that we interviewed Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great-great-grandson and a distant cousin to Franklin, about his novel Allegiance, covering the fight over these deportations at the Supreme Court.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children, who were all...
2016-03-1105 minA Journey Through HistoryA JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY The train to Crystal City: FDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during World War II 10/06/2015NLS ANNOTATION:
The train to Crystal City: FDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during World War II
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Russell, Jan Jarboe.
Reading time: 15 hours, 23 minutes.
2015-10-0700 min
Reader's CornerAuthor Jan Jarboe Russell Talks WWII Family Internment And Prisoner ExchangeThe story told by Jan Jarboe Russell in her book, “The Train to Crystal City,” will have a familiar ring to those who know about the World War II internment camp at Minidoka, Idaho.
2015-05-3029 min
Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsLady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady by Joe BevilacquaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 1, 2013 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations! Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady was written, produced, directed, and narrated by veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua. One of the most licensed audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, it is Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. The hour combines...
2013-04-0103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenLady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady by Joe BevilacquaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 1, 2013 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations! Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady was written, produced, directed, and narrated by veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua. One of the most licensed audiobooks on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, it is Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. The hour combines never-before-released...
2013-04-0103 min
Best Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsLady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady by Joe BevilacquaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Lady Johnson, Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 13, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady, written, produced, directed and narrated by Joe Bevilacqua. One of the most licensed audio books on The Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady is veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua's award-winning audio documentary examining...
2001-04-1303 min