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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 35.00For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America . An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world?s best-loved broadcasters, and a foreigner who helped Americans better understand themselves. Here, in print for the... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableWhen Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection,... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableAlistair 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... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableOn the 8th of October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, his television series America , or his introductions to Masterpiece Theatre , Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to give his first radio talk. His subject was cinema. Cooke began film reviewing in the 1920s as a Cambridge undergraduate,... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableDuring his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableAlistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. Published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, this book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy and of Bobby... more...
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Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableFor years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America: guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes... more...
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Overlook 2012; US$ 9.99Over fifty years of reportage on American life by one of the 20th century's greatest broadcasters for nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life for the BBC. Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved radio show, Letter from America , saw eleven presidents, four wars, and an incredible shift... more...
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Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.95First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke?s acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United States has sold almost two million copies. From the nation?s discovery to modern times; from the American revolutionaries to the pioneers who forged westward; from the slaves who fled north to the immigrants... more...
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