Publisher Description
Here is a selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio Letters from America, in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. In this selection of the very first Letters, Cooke reports on a memorable range of events, including the threat to the United States during World War II, the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the shocking occasion when a bomber hit the Empire State Building, and the presidential election of 1948.
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About Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke KBE (1908–2004) was born in England and educated at
Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. He became a US citizen in 1941. In 1973 he was
awarded an honorary knighthood and delivered the keynote address before both
houses of Congress at the bicentennial celebrations in 1976. Cooke lived and
worked in an apartment overlooking Central Park, where he raised his family and
lived with his wife, Jane White, until his death.