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Alistair Cooke (1908–2004)

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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
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Verk av Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke's America (1973) 1,212 exemplar
Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004) 520 exemplar
Six Men (1977) 406 exemplar
The Americans (1979) 282 exemplar
Above London (1980) 212 exemplar
The Patient Has the Floor (1777) 76 exemplar
Talk about America (1968) 73 exemplar
Letters from America, 1946-51 (1951) 67 exemplar
Reporting America (2008) 60 exemplar
Alistair Cooke at the Movies (2009) 23 exemplar
Garbo and the Night Watchmen (1971) 15 exemplar
One man's America (1952) 12 exemplar
Golf: The Marvelous Mania (2008) 10 exemplar
Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999) 10 exemplar
Letter from America V.2 (2003) 5 exemplar
Christmas Eve 4 exemplar
Omnibus: King Lear 2 exemplar
The State Of The Language (1984) 2 exemplar
Christmas Eve 1 exemplar
All at Sea 1 exemplar
Reporting America 1 exemplar
Geschichte Amerikas (1975) 1 exemplar
Six Friends 1 exemplar

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The Vintage Mencken (1955) — Redaktör — 672 exemplar
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Inledning — 113 exemplar
The World of George Price: A 55 Year Retrospective (1988) — Inledning, vissa utgÃ¥vor36 exemplar
Edwardian London (1995) — Inledning, vissa utgÃ¥vor; Inledning, vissa utgÃ¥vor35 exemplar
The Letters of Nunnally Johnson (1981) — Förord — 16 exemplar
Marilyn Monroe - Great Interviews of the 20th Century (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Alastair Cooke's America [1972 TV series] (2004) — Host — 1 exemplar

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Cooke does not try to cover the entire history of the USA or explain every quirk he encountered on this journey. Still, in this book, he gives a pretty fair account of who we are, where we've been, and maybe even why and how we do what we do. It's a great book to wander through, picking up information here and there. But it's also a book worth reading from front to back.
 
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Huba.Library | 7 andra recensioner | Feb 7, 2024 |
A slim (55 pages) volume of delight from Alistair Cooke. Anyone who ever heard his BBC broadcasts will vividly hear his voice as they read the text. Wonderful stuff.
 
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mbmackay | Jul 15, 2022 |
This book took me quite a while to read.

Interesting perspective one has now on things from not too long ago. Times are a changing quickly.

Overall I enjoyed reading his stories from America. I learned about the past, it was interesting to read an adult's take on the time of my childhood and see him change from an optimist to more of a pessimist during the 58 years this book spans.
 
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Verk
71
Även av
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Medlemmar
4,002
Popularitet
#6,309
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
39
ISBN
186
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7
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