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  • The American Home Front, 1941–1942

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is "an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule" ( The Washington Post).In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Observed

    From the 1940s to the 1980s

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke's brilliant career as a newspapermanFew journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the Guardian's chief US correspondent for more than a quarter century, filing daily dispatches about the former colonies for his British ... Read more

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  • Memories of the Great & the Good

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Alistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed, or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century and in this collection profiles the twenty-three he considered the most remarkableIn his career of more than fifty years broadcasting the BBC radio program Letter from America and as the US correspondent for the Guardian for more than twenty-five years, Alistair Cooke met and ... Read more

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  • Talk About America, 1951–1968

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times." — The Daily TelegraphAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

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  • Six Men

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the mostOver the course of his sixty-year career as a broadcaster, television host, and newspaper reporter, Alistair Cooke met many remarkable people of the twentieth century. This entertaining and insightful collection shares his unique, often ... Read more

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  • The Vintage Mencken

    by Alistair Cooke, H. L. Mencken ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Letters from America, 1946–1951

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master." —The SpectatorAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

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  • A Generation on Trial

    U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    The story of Whittaker Chambers, HUAC, and the case that defined the McCarthy era, as reported by one of the twentieth century's most respected journalists.In August 1948, a former Communist Party member named Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that a secret cell of Communists had infiltrated Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration. Chief among ... Read more

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  • The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One

    Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    **Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times–bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and "international treasure" ( Booklist).In addition to his most visible presence as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theater for over two decades, British-born Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the globe with his weekly BBC radio program, Letters ... Read more

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  • Alistair Cooke's America

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Classics stand the test of time, and Alistair Cooke's history of America is a classic.Nearly three decades have passed since the original edition of America -- based on journalist-historian Cooke's extraordinarily popular thirteen-part television series -- sold more than a million copies. Yet Cooke's view of America's dynamic past and its impact upon the always-changing present continues to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Letter from America: The Essential Letters 1936 - 2004

    With additional narration by BBC American correspondent Matt Frei

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Narrated by Alistair Cooke ...

    Unabridged

    47 hours 52 min

    All six volumes of 'The Essential Letters from America', brought together for the first time in this definitive chronological collection of Alistair Cooke's finest broadcastsAlistair Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents and a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly 'Letter from America'. It was the longest-running show in radio history, and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    American Home Front, The

    1941-1942

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Narrated by John Byrne Cooke ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our country’s complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America - the Twentieth Century’s de Tocqueville.Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD