Alistair Cooke was a renowned British American journalist and host of television and radio programs. His work was characterized by keen observation and influential reporting, often offering American audiences insights into British life and vice versa. His distinctive style and ability to connect with listeners made him one of the most respected voices of his era. Through his long-running 'Letter from America' broadcasts for the BBC, he shaped public discourse and fostered cross-cultural understanding.
From golfing's birth on the coast of Scotland to the breathtaking courses of New Zealand, this book underlines the sport as a global phenomenon. Seventy of the world's most important courses are illustrated and analyzed in detail. Their histories, architecture, the special challenges of certain holes, and spectacular landscapes give the reader a real sense of being there.
Talks selected from Cooke's radio broadcasts reveal his incisive, illuminating, and witty observations on Watergate, Vietnam, and other news events of the last decade
This collection features Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on pivotal moments and figures in post-war America. As a remarkable reporter and interpreter of his adopted country to Britain and the world, Cooke's journey began with his first broadcast in 1946, capturing the essence of America through significant events like the Korean War, McCarthy witch hunts, Civil Rights, JFK's presidency, the moon landings, Robert Kennedy's assassination, Nixon's resignation, and Clinton's scandals, culminating with the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War. The anthology includes Cooke's insights on notable personalities and the perspectives of everyday Americans, alongside memories from his daughter, Susan. This tribute reflects Cooke's profound connection to the country he cherished. Critics have praised the work as an indispensable record of 20th-century American culture, highlighting Cooke's ability to make sense of decades filled with turmoil and triumph. With a remarkable career spanning print, radio, and television, Cooke served as The Guardian's Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years and hosted influential cultural programs, but he is best known for his long-running BBC series, "Letter from America," which aired 2,869 times over fifty-eight years, making it the longest-running radio series in history.
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-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. 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, here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation.
Photographs taken from the air present striking views of the buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area
A look at American conservatism by the current editor and Washington bureau chief of The Economist.
Provides a visual record of London through unique aerial photographs and accompanying text.
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 supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man.
Life on the Home Front in the Second World War
Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for The Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand, the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter's zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians - even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.
