Letter from America, 1946-2004

Name: Letter from America, 1946-2004
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ISBN: 9781400044023

ISBN-10: 1400044022

ISBN-13: 9781400044023

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alistair Cooke

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For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world’s best-loved broadcasters, and a foreigner who helped Americans better understand themselves. Here, in print for the first time, is a collection of Cooke’s finest reports that celebrates the inimitable style of this wise and avuncular reporter. Beginning with his first letter in 1946, a powerful description of American GIs returning home, and ending with his last broadcast in February 2004, in which he expressed his views on the United States presidential…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/9/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

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 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…

Introduction
Editor's note
The 1940s
The immigrant strain	p. 3
Damon Runyon's America	p. 8
Roughing it	p. 13
Joe Louis	p. 18
Washington, DC	p. 23
The fall of New England	p. 32
Letter to an intending immigrant	p. 40
The 1950s
The summer bachelor	p. 47
It's a democracy, isn't it?	p. 52
The European's America	p. 57
Getting away from it all	p. 62
The court and the Negro	p. 67
The colonel of the plains	p. 73
HLM : RIP	p. 78
The road to Churchill Downs	p. 85
Politics and the human animal	p. 92
General Marshall	p. 96
The 1960s
Beizbol	p. 105
Robert Frost	p. 109
The father	p. 115
The assassination	p. 121
LBJ	p. 126
Has the world gone to pot?	p. 131
John McLaren's folly	p. 136
The well-dressed American, man!	p. 142
A lonely man	p. 147
Vietnam	p. 151
A bad night in Los Angeles	p. 159
Making a home of a house	p. 165
Telling one country about another	p. 170
Pegler	p. 178
'Eternal vigilance' - by whom?	p. 184
The 1970s
The letter from Long Island	p. 191
Give thanks, for what?	p. 196
The Duke	p. 201
The end of the affair	p. 206
I'm all right, Jack	p. 210
No cabinet officers need apply	p. 215
Christmas in Vermont	p. 219
Mr. Olmsted's park	p. 223
The retiring kind	p. 228
Two for the road	p. 234
The spy that came down in the cold	p. 239
A letter from Long Island	p. 244
The presidential ear	p. 248
The 1980s
Bringing up baby	p. 255
Attempted assassination of President Reagan	p. 259
The Fourth of July	p. 263
Old man Reagan	p. 268
Inaugurals - on and off	p. 272
Memories of 11 November	p. 277
Miss much - no regret	p. 281
Expert witness	p. 286
The drugs blight	p. 290
Time to retire	p. 295
Martin Luther King - the black Washington	p. 299
Fred Astaire	p. 304
Origins of American slang	p. 308
Mayor Koch at work	p. 312
Hurricanes	p. 316
Chaplin - the last word	p. 321
San Francisco earthquake	p. 325
The 1990s
Presidential ghosts	p. 333
The end of the eighties - great or greedy?	p. 337
Fighting in what?	p. 341
Riots in Los Angeles	p. 347
White House style	p. 351
The Irish in New York City	p. 354
'Give me your tired, your poor ...'	p. 358
Thirtieth anniversary of Kennedy assassination	p. 362
Boston	p. 366
Trick or treat	p. 371
Fiftieth anniversary of VE day	p. 375
O.J. - the verdict	p. 379
The old rocking chair	p. 383
Silver Watergate	p. 388
The end of civilization	p. 392
The Kennedy missile tapes	p. 396
The evolution of the grand jury	p. 401
The president will address the nation	p. 405
New words for objects new and old	p. 410
Loneliness, male companionship and the hunt	p. 415
Park Avenue's colourful Christmas	p. 420
2000 - 2004
The death of the old media	p. 427
Running mates and carpetbaggers	p. 430
The day of judgement	p. 435
The origin of the continental blow-out	p. 439
America's day of terror	p. 442
America on standby	p. 446
The stars and stripes	p. 450
Messiah at Christmas	p. 454
Ringing the changes	p. 458
Arise, Sir Rudolph	p. 462
The day the money stopped	p. 466
Memory of a true great	p. 470
The last of the old-time gangsters	p. 474
Farewell to San Francisco	p. 478
Remembering a dear friend	p. 483
Meeting the stars	p. 487
The pledge of allegiance	p. 491
Towering glass and steel	p. 494
Charlie Addams	p. 498
The Democrats' growing confidence	p. 501
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