Alistair Cooke S American Journey

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141904726

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Alistair Cooke's American Journey by Alistair Cooke Pdf

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.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398114548

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Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke Pdf

A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold ore than 2 million copies to date. Full of Cooke's signature wit and wisdom, this is a lucid and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634258654

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Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke Pdf

Author : ALISTAIR. COOKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1398114537

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Alistair Cooke's America by ALISTAIR. COOKE Pdf

A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold more than 2 million copies. Full of Cooke's signature erudition, this is an incisive and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series and this title's first publication.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141909202

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke Pdf

A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States 'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' Independent When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until his retirement, kept the world in touch with what was happening in America. Cooke's wry, humane and liberal style both informed and entertained his audience. The selection here, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It covers key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through to the Vietnam War and Watergate to 9/11, the Iraq War and anticipates the 2004 elections. It includes portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King, Jr, and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall. Each Letter contributes to a captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781555848149

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The American Home Front, 1941–1942 by Alistair Cooke Pdf

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 a closet in his New York apartment. It was a travelogue of America during the early days of World War II that had sat there for sixty years. Published to stellar reviews, Cooke’s The American Home Front is a “valentine to his adopted country by someone who loved it as well as anyone and knew it better than most” (The Plain Dealer). A portrait frozen in time, the book offers a charming look at the era as it journeys through small towns, big cities, and the American landscape as they once were. The American Home Front is also a brilliant piece of reportage, a historical gem that “affirms Cooke’s enduring place as a great twentieth-century reporter” (American Heritage). “An interesting eyewitness record . . . It recalls transcontinental travel in the pre-interstate highway era, and with greater depth, social problems that Cooke detected beneath the win-the-war exhortations he encountered from coast to coast.” —Booklist

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465020058

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America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds Pdf

"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis) It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history—from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama—prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion. Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141033174

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Reporting America by Alistair Cooke Pdf

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Almost all the material will be new to Cooke fans - transcripts of his legendary Letters from America, long-forgotten reports in the Guardian (whose correspondent in New York he was for 25 years) and other freshly discovered writings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cameron Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Aerial photography
ISBN : 0918684102

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Above London by Anonim Pdf

Above London. Visitors to England who marvel at this lush land on their first incoming flight now have a volume to treasure forever. Here are the famed gardens, the majestic estates, the granduer of centuries of architecture. Along with Robert Cameron's areial photographs Alistair Cooke's text is brimming with the raconteur's characteristic wit and insight. The pictorial essay begins at the Thames and follows the history of the beloved city well into the countryside.

Author : Justin Webb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781476730202

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Cheers, America by Justin Webb Pdf

An editor at BBC-TV takes a witty and honest look at the “special” relationship between the US and the UK. IMAGINE INVITING A BRIT TO A BARBECUE - THAT’S THIS BOOK. Justin Webb was the BBC’s man in America. He covered politics and interviewed presidents, but more importantly he reported, as Alistair Cooke once did, on the rich tapestry of American life. This is his toast to a country he called home for the best part of a decade. Webb’s America is a place of possibility and promise. He is scornful of those who think the nation is in decline, and posits an exciting new diplomatic era in which America diversifies its international relationships. Cheers, America will make you smile. Its wry and heartfelt observations provide a redeeming vision of our country at a time when it is redefining its identity.

Author : Kevin Michael Kruse,Kevin M. Kruse,Stephen Tuck
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195382402

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Fog of War by Kevin Michael Kruse,Kevin M. Kruse,Stephen Tuck Pdf

This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality. Scholars from a wide range of fields explore the impact of war on the longer history of African American protest from many angles: from black veterans to white segregationists, from the rural South to northern cities, from popular culture to federal politics, and from the American confrontations to international connections. It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil rights movement. But the authors show that in reality the momentum for civil rights was not so clear cut, with activists facing setbacks as well as successes and their opponents finding ways to establish more rigid defenses for segregation. While the war set the scene for a mass movement, it also narrowed some of the options for black activists.

Author : Stephen Tuck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674036263

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We Ain’t What We Ought To Be by Stephen Tuck Pdf

Chronicles the struggles for African American freedoms and equality from the end of the Civil War to the current day, focusing on the achievements of grassroots activists and national leaders alike.

Author : Eric Robson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Letters from America 1773 to 1780 by Eric Robson Pdf

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:40831383

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Talk about America by Alistair Cooke Pdf

Author : Ndi-Shang, Gil
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942876489

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Letter from America by Ndi-Shang, Gil Pdf

Inspired by Alistair Cooke’s masterpiece “Letter from America” (1934-2004) that depicted the transformation of British culture in the United States of America, Ndi-Shang’s text redefines ‘America’, focusing on the melting pot engendered by African, indigenous, European and Asian cultures in Latin America through the case of Peru, the erstwhile epicentre of Spanish empire in Latin America. It is a reflection on the triangular relationship between Africa, Europe and America against the backdrop of slavery and (neo-)colonialism which continue to define intimate experiences, daily interactions, personal trajectories and human relations in a ‘globalized world’. Ndi-Shang probes into the legacies of racial inequalities but also the possibilities of a new ethic of encounter amongst human beings/cultures. The text is based on an intricate interweaving of the humorous with the tragic, the personal with the global, the historical with the current and the real with the creative.