The American Home Front by Alistair Cooke

The American Home Front by Alistair Cooke

In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America--the Twentieth Century's de Tocqueville. Cooke died in 2004, but shortly before he passed away a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in a closet in his New York apartment. It was a travelogue of America during the early days of World War II that had sat there for sixty years. Published to stellar reviews in 2006, though somewhat past deadline, Cooke's The American Home Front is a valentine to his adopted country by someone who loved it as well as anyone and knew it better than most (The Plain Dealer Cleveland]). It is a unique artifact and a historical gem, an unexpected and welcome discover in a time capsule. (Washington Post) A portrait frozen in time, the book offers a charming look at the war through small towns, big cities, and the American landscape as they once were. The American Home Front is also a brilliant piece of reportage, a historical gem that affirms Cooke's enduring place as a great twentieth-century reporter (American Heritage).

Cooke, Alistair: - Born in England and educated at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard, Alistar Cooke (1908-2004) became a U.S. citizen in 1941. He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 1973 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.

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ISBN 13	9780871139399
ISBN 10	0871139391
Title	The American Home Front
Author	Alistair Cooke
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2006-04-11
Number of pages	336
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