America
by Cooke, Alistair
Alistair Cooke enjoyed an extraordinary career in print, radio, and television. Born in Salford, England, in 1908 and educated at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard, he was the BBC’s film critic from 1934 to 1937. He then returned to America and became a U.S. citizen in 1941. Cooke was The Guardian’s Chief American Correspondent for twenty-five years and was the host of groundbreaking cultural programs on American television and of the BBC series America, which was a huge hit and led to the international best-selling book Alistair Cooke’s America. Cooke was made an honorary KBE in 1973 for his outstanding contribution to Anglo-American understanding, and received many other awards, including the Peabody Award, the Dimbleby Award, four Emmy Awards, and the Benjamin Franklin Award. He had a passion for films, jazz, and golf, and was a talented pianist.Alistair Cooke was, however, best known at home and abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of American life, was heard in more than five continents, and totaled 2,869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004. He wrote most of the scripts for Letter from America on an ancient Royal typewriter in his New York apartment overlooking Central Park, where he raised his family and lived with his wife, Jane White, until his death on March 30, 2004.
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New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with crisp bright wraps; no creasing. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Has beautiful colored and black & white pictures throughout. 400 numbered pages; Size approx 7"" wide x 9 3/4"" tall x 1 1/8"" thick. *… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knope, Inc., 1974. Brown cloth boards with white spine & gilt letters. Title blind pressed on board. Corners & edges sharp. Illustrated map on endpages & 400 tightly bound pages. White pages with b/w, color photos and illustrations. Prev. owner's name & inscription dated 1974 on title page. No other marks. Dust Jacket has wear, small… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. 1st Edition. Ninth Printing. Hard Cover. 0394487265 . Quarter bound in white cloth over maroon boards, gilt lettering on spine, title blind-stamped on front cover, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs and reproductions. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, former owner's… Read more about this item Item Price
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USA: Knopf, 1973. Knopf 1973 Book Club Edition Very Good/Very Good DJ Light wear and bumping to corners. Grey leather like spine with burgundy leather like boards. Illustrated Map end papers. Bright photo illustrated pages with some color photos. 400 pages. LARGE HEAVY ITEM. Size: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 x 1 inches. Bright glossy dust jacket #5688 with mended… Read more about this item Item Price
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'America', [His weekly radio 'Letter from America' addictive, this book is a greatly expanded version of his acclaimed BBC television series which looks at America from prehistoric days to the present],
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British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1974,. see description. large A4-letterhead size, 400pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and in black and white, from contemporary and modern photographs and early paintings, on the front endpapers a heavily decorated double-page map, 'Americae Sive Novi Orbis No Va Descriptio', printed brown umber on parchment-style paper, treated in a similar way a more modern [1873]… Read more about this item Item Price
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