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Alistair Cooke S America
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
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Alistair Cooke S America
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Alistair Cooke S America written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold ore than 2 million copies to date. Full of Cooke's signature wit and wisdom, this is a lucid and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series.
Alistair Cooke S America
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Author : ALISTAIR. COOKE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Alistair Cooke S America written by ALISTAIR. COOKE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with categories.
A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold more than 2 million copies. Full of Cooke's signature erudition, this is an incisive and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series and this title's first publication.
Alistair Cooke S American Journey
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-04-26
Alistair Cooke S American Journey written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-26 with History categories.
Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter’s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians – even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke’s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.
Letter From America
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-06-02
Letter From America written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-02 with Literary Collections categories.
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States 'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' Independent When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until his retirement, kept the world in touch with what was happening in America. Cooke's wry, humane and liberal style both informed and entertained his audience. The selection here, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It covers key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through to the Vietnam War and Watergate to 9/11, the Iraq War and anticipates the 2004 elections. It includes portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King, Jr, and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall. Each Letter contributes to a captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man.
The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2018-05-29
The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with Literary Collections categories.
Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times–bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and “international treasure” (Booklist). In addition to his most visible presence as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater for over two decades, British-born Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the globe with his weekly BBC radio program, Letters from America, for over half a century. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world’s best-loved broadcasters. The three works in this collection gather together his most memorable insights into American history and culture. “Reading [Cooke] is like spending an evening with him: you may have heard it all before, but never told with such grace and sparkle” (The New York Times Book Review). Letters from America: Beginning with his first letter in 1946, a powerful description of American GIs returning home, and ending with his last broadcast in February 2004, reflecting on the presidential campaign, this comprehensive collection displays Cooke’s “virtuosity approaching genius in talking about America in human terms” (Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the BBC). Highlights include an eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination, a moving evocation of 9/11, personal reflections on presidents, and warm remembrances of celebrity friends and cultural icons. “In this tightly edited collection . . . Cooke captures the expanding soul of a nation and people.” —Publishers Weekly Talk About America: Personally selected by Cooke, these dispatches cover a tumultuous time in American history, including the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Along with cogent commentary, Cooke offers characteristically incisive portraits of political and cultural figures such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert Frost, H. L. Mencken, Charles Lindbergh, and John Glenn. “There is great political penetration here, and there are flashes on every page of wit, humanity, and wisdom.” —The New York Times The Americans: Always entertaining, provocative, and enlightening, the “best storyteller in America” reports on an extraordinarily diverse range of topics, from Vietnam, Watergate, and the constitutional definition of free speech to the jogging craze and the pleasures of a family Christmas in Vermont (James Reston). In this New York Times bestseller, Cooke eulogizes Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, pays an affectionate and moving tribute to Duke Ellington, and treats readers to a night at the opera with Jimmy Carter. “One of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century.” —The Spectator
The American Home Front 1941 1942
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2007
The American Home Front 1941 1942 written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, shares his observations of American life in the year following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
America Observed
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
America Observed written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
America Observed provides, for the first time, a collection of Alistair Cooke's memorable dispatches to The Guardian written between 1946 and 1972, the year that he retired as the paper's chief American correspondent.
Talk About America 1951 1968
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Talk About America 1951 1968 written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Literary Collections categories.
“There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times.” —The Daily Telegraph As the voice of the BBC’s Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the BBC, Cooke had “a virtuosity approaching genius in talking about America in human terms.” This second collection of Cooke’s personally selected letters covers tumultuous events in American history such as the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. His analysis of the origins of the conflict in Vietnam is clear eyed and compelling, and in three thoughtful and incisive essays—on Brown v. Board of Education, the struggle to integrate the Deep South, and the riots in Watts—Cooke identifies the changing racial attitudes that defined the era. He reflects on the rise of drug use among college students and offers a paean to the beauty of Golden Gate Park. With characteristically incisive portraits of political and cultural figures such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Frost, H. L. Mencken, Charles Lindbergh, and John Glenn, Talk About America: 1951–1968 is rich with humor, compassion, and commitment. In this superb overview of an astonishing era in America’s twentieth century, Alistair Cooke is at the top of his game.
The Americans
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Author : Alistair Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1980
The Americans written by Alistair Cooke and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
Contains fifty talks from the author's radio program "Letters from America," commenting on American life from 1969 to 1979.