Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over 50 years in his weekly Letter from America.
This selection of letters includes Cooke's reports on momentous events, such as Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, the ceasefire in Vietnam and the assassination attempt on Gerald Ford.
Here, too, are Cooke's thoughts on Jimmy Carter becoming president, the death of Harry S. Truman, the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station, and the Apollo-Soyuz link-up in space.
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