EAN: 9780241513361

LETTER FROM AMERICA - ALISTAIR COOKE KARTONIERT...

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.

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