America Observed by Ronald Wells

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Summary

Alistair Cooke was chief American correspondent of "The Guardian". This selection of some 50 of his interpretative pieces written between 1946 and 1972 looks at politics, literature, sport, regional life, racial turmoil and American personalities during this period.

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America Observed by Ronald Wells

"America Observed" provides, for the first time, a collection of Alistair Cooke's memorable dispatches to "The Guardian" written between 1946 and 1972, the year that he retired as the paper's chief American correspondent. Ronald Wells has selected over 50 interpretative peices that span the great range of Cooke's reporting: politics, literature, sport, vignettes of regional life, long-gone Presidents from Truman to Nixon, the racial turmoil of the 1960s and profiles of Americans as various as Frank Lloyd Wright and Garry Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. Alistair Cooke is best know for his weekly BBC broadcast "Letter from America" which is heard in 52 countries and is the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. He is author of three collections: "Talk About America", "Letters from America" and "The Americans".

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ISBN 13 9781871061093
ISBN 10 1871061091
Title America Observed
Author Ronald Wells
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1988-10-27
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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