Alistair Cookes American Journey

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141022949
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's American Journey written by Alistair Cooke and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Cooke, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. 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.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781405648431
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's American Journey written by Alistair Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing the United States during World War Two dramatically to life, this title presents an introduction to the challenges that faced America at the start of a war long thought avoidable.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398114545
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's America written by Alistair Cooke and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : ALISTAIR. COOKE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781398114531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's America written by ALISTAIR. COOKE and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848141
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Home Front, 1941–1942 written by Alistair Cooke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is “an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule” (The Washington Post). In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in a closet in his New York apartment. It was a travelogue of America during the early days of World War II that had sat there for sixty years. Published to stellar reviews, Cooke’s The American Home Front is a “valentine to his adopted country by someone who loved it as well as anyone and knew it better than most” (The Plain Dealer). A portrait frozen in time, the book offers a charming look at the era as it journeys through small towns, big cities, and the American landscape as they once were. The American Home Front is also a brilliant piece of reportage, a historical gem that “affirms Cooke’s enduring place as a great twentieth-century reporter” (American Heritage). “An interesting eyewitness record . . . It recalls transcontinental travel in the pre-interstate highway era, and with greater depth, social problems that Cooke detected beneath the win-the-war exhortations he encountered from coast to coast.” —Booklist

Author : Justin Webb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730202
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheers, America written by Justin Webb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An editor at BBC-TV takes a witty and honest look at the “special” relationship between the US and the UK. IMAGINE INVITING A BRIT TO A BARBECUE - THAT’S THIS BOOK. Justin Webb was the BBC’s man in America. He covered politics and interviewed presidents, but more importantly he reported, as Alistair Cooke once did, on the rich tapestry of American life. This is his toast to a country he called home for the best part of a decade. Webb’s America is a place of possibility and promise. He is scornful of those who think the nation is in decline, and posits an exciting new diplomatic era in which America diversifies its international relationships. Cheers, America will make you smile. Its wry and heartfelt observations provide a redeeming vision of our country at a time when it is redefining its identity.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's America written by Alistair Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190920X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter from America written by Alistair Cooke and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eric Robson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from America 1773 to 1780 written by Eric Robson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497697689
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from America, 1946–1951 written by Alistair Cooke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master.” —The Spectator 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.” Letters from America: 1946–1951 contains highlights from the first five years of Alistair Cooke’s legendary BBC radio program, years when listeners were eager to put the horrors of World War II behind them. Cooke’s lively and illuminating dispatches from New York perfectly capture the spirit of the times. From the significance of Labor Day to reflections on the changing seasons to the heroic Long Island duck that saved two people from drowning, little escapes the broadcaster’s sharp reportorial eye and affable wit. This collection includes Cooke’s historical tour of Washington, DC, and his thoughts on why New York is such a singular city, and covers more serious topics such as the Soviet threat and the anxieties of the atomic age. Always captivating, Cooke treats the reader to profiles of Joe Louis and Will Rogers and reflections on Damon Runyon’s America, and concludes with a “Letter to an Intending Immigrant.” Letters from America: 1946–1951, the first volume of Cooke’s iconic broadcasts, offers a captivating journey through culture, history, and politics and is a classic of twentieth-century journalism.