Alistair Cooke (1908–2004)
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Om författaren
Alistair Cooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Manchester, England on November 20, 1908. He obtained his education at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. His career is based on his observations of American life and culture. Cooke worked as a correspondent for NBC and as a special visa mer correspondent for the London Times and the Guardian. He is perhaps most famous for his BBC weekly broadcast, "Letter From America," which has been successful for over fifty years because of its sophisticated wit. Cooke became well-known in the United States as host for Omnibus for nine years and later as host of the Masterpiece Theatre. He has also written numerous books including the bestsellers Alistair Cooke's America, Six Men, and Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke. In 1973, Cooke was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Serier
Verk av Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006) — Författare — 103 exemplar
The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One: Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans (2018) 5 exemplar
Christmas Eve 4 exemplar
A Commencement Address 2 exemplar
Omnibus: King Lear 2 exemplar
Letters from America, 1946–1951 1 exemplar
Christmas Eve 1 exemplar
All at Sea 1 exemplar
Alistair Cooke's American Journey 1 exemplar
Talk About America, 1951–1968 1 exemplar
Reporting America 1 exemplar
Rare SIGNED ~ The Patient Has the Floor by Alistair Cooke (1986) The Franklin Library (1777) 1 exemplar
Six Friends 1 exemplar
Masterpiece Theatre's Family Collection 1 exemplar
The Vintage Menchken 1 exemplar
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Above Washington: A Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the District of Columbia (1979) — Inledning, vissa utgÃ¥vor — 170 exemplar
Above San Francisco: A New Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the Bay Area (1975) — Förord — 129 exemplar
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Cooke, Alfred (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1908-11-20
- Avled
- 2004-03-30
- Begravningsplats
- ashes scattered in Central Park, New York, New York, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
USA (naturalized|1941) - Födelseort
- Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- cancer
- Bostadsorter
- Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, England, UK - Utbildning
- Jesus College, Cambridge
- Yrken
- reporter
radio presenter
television presenter - Relationer
- Cooke, John Byrne (son)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (teacher)
Pick, Hella (colleague) - Organisationer
- BBC
PBS
Guardian
The Times
CBS
NBC - Priser och utmärkelser
- Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1973)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 71
- Även av
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 4,002
- Popularitet
- #6,309
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 39
- ISBN
- 186
- Språk
- 7
- Favoritmärkt
- 3