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  • The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One

    Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    **Three volumes of BBC broadcasts about the US from the New York Times–bestselling author, host of Masterpiece Theater, and "international treasure" ( Booklist).In addition to his most visible presence as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theater for over two decades, British-born Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the globe with his weekly BBC radio program, Letters ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alistair Cooke at the Movies

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    A wonderful entertainment that reflects Alistair Cooke's love affair with cinema, from his early days as a film critic to his iconic role as the host of Masterpiece TheatreHumphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, and Marilyn Monroe are just a few of the stars profiled, along with many directors, in this sparkling and comprehensive collection of reviews, interviews, and ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Patient Has the Floor

    Essays

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices in broadcast journalismIn his Letter from America reports for the BBC and as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke addressed millions of people all over the world every week. The fourteen essays collected here, each of which was first delivered as a speech, showcase the wit, charm, and eloquence of Cooke's voice in more ... Read more

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  • Six Men

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the mostOver the course of his sixty-year career as a broadcaster, television host, and newspaper reporter, Alistair Cooke met many remarkable people of the twentieth century. This entertaining and insightful collection shares his unique, often ... Read more

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  • Letters from America, 1946–1951

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master." —The SpectatorAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Observed

    From the 1940s to the 1980s

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke's brilliant career as a newspapermanFew journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the Guardian's chief US correspondent for more than a quarter century, filing daily dispatches about the former colonies for his British ... Read more

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  • Memories of the Great & the Good

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Alistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed, or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century and in this collection profiles the twenty-three he considered the most remarkableIn his career of more than fifty years broadcasting the BBC radio program Letter from America and as the US correspondent for the Guardian for more than twenty-five years, Alistair Cooke met and ... Read more

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  • The American Home Front, 1941–1942

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Americans

    Letters from America 1969–1979

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "Reading [Cooke] is like spending an evening with him: you may have heard it all before, but never told with such grace and sparkle." — The New York Times Book ReviewAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talk About America, 1951–1968

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    "There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times." — The Daily TelegraphAs the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fourth Street East

    A Novel of How It Was

    by Jerome Weidman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Benny Kramer Novels
    A New York Times–bestselling author's poignant novel of a boy's coming of age on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1920s.When Benny Kramer's father came to the United States, he was hungry, broke, and ignorant. Handed a banana and told it was "American food," he scarfed it down, peel and all. By the time he died, he was no richer, but much wiser, and everything he learned he imparted to his son. ... Read more

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  • Letter from America, 1946-2004

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD