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. Ronald Wells has selected over 50 interpretative peices that span the great range of Cooke's reporting: politics, literature, sport, vignettes of regional life, long-gone Presidents from Truman to Nixon, the racial turmoil of the 1960s and profiles of Americans as various as Frank Lloyd Wright and Garry Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. Alistair Cooke is best know for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America which is heard in 52 countries and is the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. He is author of three collections: Talk About America , Letters from America and The Americans .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781871061093
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91734130
Product Key Features
Book Title
America Observed: Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke
Author
Alistair Cooke
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
People, Literary Theory
Publication Year
1988
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
220mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
418g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Alistair Cooke
Editor
Ronald Wells
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Best Selling in Books
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books