Alistair Cooke's America
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A personal history of America, from the man who arrived there in the 1930s. With stories of triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies, from the explorers who put America on the map and the pioneers who tamed the wild west, to the soldiers who fought...
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A personal history of America, from the man who arrived there in the 1930s. With stories of triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies, from the explorers who put America on the map and the pioneers who tamed the wild west, to the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. With portraits of key people from the "Mayflower" to Pearl Harbour, this is the defining portrait of a nation.
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Now regarded as a classic, Alistair Cooke's America is an intimate portrait of the nation, and an irresistibly readable guide to what has made this powerful democracy work and survive through the years.For over sixty years Alistair Cooke wrote and broadcast on every facet of American life with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his 'personal history' of America, the bestselling book that accompanied his legendary television series, with full colour photos alongside the text.
Beginning with the controversial discovery of America, Alistair Cooke writes with engaging wit and wisdom about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldier who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush, the Jazz Age to Pearl Harbor, with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill, John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King, here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies.
'Cooke was the special relationship'
Daily Mail
'Civilized, literate, rational, graceful, humane'
New York Magazine
Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television. The Guardian's Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years and the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television and of the BBC series America, Cooke was, however, best known both at home and abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of US life, was heard over five continents and totalled 2,869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004, far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history.
Autoren-Porträt von Alistair Cooke
Cooke, Alistair Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television. Born in Salford in 1908 and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Harvard, throughout his long career he worked as a journalist and broadcaster for many different organisations and won numerous awards for his work. He was the Guardian's chief American correspondent for twenty-five years and the host of Masterpiece Theatre and other ground-breaking cultural television programmes. He achieved acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his thirteen-part BBC series America: A Personal History of the United States and the accompanying book sold two million copies. Alistair Cooke was, however, best known both at home and abroad for his weekly Letter from America, which was heard over five continents and totalled 2,869 broadcasts, becoming far and away the longest-running BBC radio series in broadcasting history. He died in March 2004, just a few weeks after his retirement.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alistair Cooke
- 2008, 352 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 2,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141036087
- ISBN-13: 9780141036083
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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