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Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 80s by Alistair Cooke
Category: History
This work includes Alistair Cooke's most momentous radio Letters from the 1980s. Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly "Letter from America". It was the longest-running one-man series in radio history, and every show was a virtuoso perfo ...Show more
Alistair Cooke at the Movies by Alistair Cooke
Category: Film & Tv
On 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 revie ...Show more
Alistair Cooke at the Movies by Alistair Cooke
Category: Film
On the 8th of October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, 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, and continued to broadcast on ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
Category: History
For 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 ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's American Journey : Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
Category: Biography Memoir
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, w ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's American Journey : Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
Category: Biography Memoir
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 ...Show more
Audio 2-CDs: Alistair Cooke's The Essential Letters from America: The 1940 and 1950s by Alistair Cooke
Category: unmapped
This is a selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio Letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly "Letter from America". It was the longest-running one-man series in radio history, an ...Show more
Letter from America - 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United StatesWhen 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 ...Show more
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
Category: Biography Memoir
When 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 C ...Show more
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
Category: Biography Memoir
For over half a century Alistair Cooke entertained millions of listeners across the globe with his weekly BBC radio programme Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
Category: Biography Memoir
When 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 C ...Show more
Memories of the Great and the Good by Alistair Cooke
Category: Fiction
Alistair Cooke offers a gallery of portraits and sketches of many of the people he has known, admired, or "covered" during his long and distinguished career in journalism. A personal insight into many characters which serve to illustrate the philosophy of the 20th century.