"Such Insulting Trash and Triviality'" Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fala Speech Reconsidered

Bibliographic Data

ID8894932
AuthorsGil Troy (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume25
Issue1
Pages45-72
Publication date1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-025-01-03
OpenAlexW1972805812
LanguageEN
References cited19

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fala speech of 23 September 1944 marks a cele- brated moment in American electoral history. Running for his fourth term, President Roosevelt faced a surprisingly vigorous challenge from his Republican opponents. With World War II still raging and his health failing, the president had decided to limit his public appearances. After a disastrous speech in Seattle during the summer, Democrats began to worry that Roosevelt might lose the election. But in his rollicking address to the Teamsters Union convention that autumn night, the old master revived his campaign. The centrepiece of his comeback speech was a sarcastic defense of his Scottish terrier, Fala, from Republican attacks

Convention · Political science · Spanish Civil War · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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