When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and ...

Features eight seasonal letters from Alistair Cooke, one of the great broadcaster of BBC Radio. This title contains eight of Cooke's Christmas and New Year Letters from America, broadcast in December and January over the five decades of his career and covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre.

When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. This selection gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man.

Alistair Cooke began film reviewing in the 1920s as a Cambridge undergraduate, and continued to broadcast on cinema from New York. He also observed cinema's personalities, writing tributes to Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, James Cagney and others. This book presents his film reviews.

For over half a century, Alistair Cooke was the leading interpreter of America to the rest of the world. Cooke had a lifelong fascination with sports - but of all the sports he witnessed and covered, his first love was always golf. This book presents a collection of Cooke's essays on his lasting passion.

Presents the best of Alistair Cooke's writings about golf, his greatest sporting passion, which display the wit, the insights, the charm, the elegance and enchantment which made him famous for over sixty years as a broadcaster.

For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America: guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new

Following the sad death of Alistair Cooke after 58 years in broadcasting, this impressive collection features both volumes 1 and 2 of Cooke's Letter From America as well as a third volume. The political and social landmarks of the last 50 years are reported on and examined in Cooke's uniquely wise style. Also included is Alistair Cooke at the BBC, a selection of archive recordings, including ...

Guides us through centuries of changing life in the US. From the Mayflower to the gold rush, the jazz age to Pearl Harbour, with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill, John D Rockefeller and Martin Luther King, this book presents the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies.

A collection of 12 Alistair Cooke broadcasts from between 1946 and 1968. He offers his opinions and reflections on topics which range from the decisions of presidents and prime ministers to sporting triumphs, cultural changes, and the mores of society world-wide.

Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incomparable wit, the unexpected insights, the mischievous charm, the elegance and enchantment which ma

Offers an account of six remarkable men who crossed the author's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him.

During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him. Here are candid portraits of th

Alistair Cooke, a Washington correspondent for The Guardian , recognized a story to be told in investigating the effects of the Second World War on America and the lives of Americans as they adjusted to new circumstances. This work talks about this American character and the spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts.

Reports on a varied selection of events, including the 1992 presidential election, the art of Charles Schulz and introducing Bernstein to Handel's Messiah. Here, the author remembers the infamous standoff over Cuba, which caused a third world war, and recalls the shocking events surrounding September 11th 2001 and the subsequent war on terror.

Includes the most momentous radio Letters - from the 1980s - of the author who was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly Letter from America .

A collection of 12 Alistair Cooke broadcasts from between 1946 and 1968. He offers his opinions and reflections on topics which range from the decisions of presidents and prime ministers to sporting triumphs, cultural changes, and the mores of society world-wide.

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. Published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, this book presents his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War to the assassination of John Kennedy and of Bobby Kennedy.