Alistair Cooke (1908–2004)

Autore di Alistair Cooke's America

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Sull'Autore

Alistair Cooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Manchester, England on November 20, 1908. He obtained his education at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. His career is based on his observations of American life and culture. Cooke worked as a correspondent for NBC and as a special mostra altro correspondent for the London Times and the Guardian. He is perhaps most famous for his BBC weekly broadcast, "Letter From America," which has been successful for over fifty years because of its sophisticated wit. Cooke became well-known in the United States as host for Omnibus for nine years and later as host of the Masterpiece Theatre. He has also written numerous books including the bestsellers Alistair Cooke's America, Six Men, and Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke. In 1973, Cooke was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Alistar Cook, Alistair Cook, Alister Cooke, Alstair Cooke, Alistair Cook, COOKE ALISTAIR, Alastair Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Allistar Cooke, Allistair Cooke, Allistair Cooke, Alistaire Cooke, Alistair Cooke's, Alistair - Commentary Cooke, RONALD A. WELLS (EDITOR) ALISTAIR COOKE

Fonte dell'immagine: Marion S. Trikosko (1974)

Serie

Letter from America (Radio Collection)

Letter from America (Cooke)

Opere di Alistair Cooke

Popolari Recenti

Alistair Cooke's America (1973) 1,222 copie

Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004) 531 copie

Six Men (1977) 407 copie

The Americans (1979) 290 copie

The American Home Front: 1941-1942 (2006) 267 copie

Above London (1980) 215 copie

Memories of the Great and the Good (1999) 152 copie

Masterpieces: A decade of Masterpiece theatre (1981) 109 copie

America Observed: The Newspaper years of Alistair Cooke (1988) 105 copie

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006) — Autore — 105 copie

The Patient Has the Floor (1966) 77 copie

Talk about America (1968) 75 copie

Letters from America, 1946-51 (1951) 68 copie

Letters from Four Seasons (Pocket Penguins 70's) (2005) 65 copie

Reporting America (2008) 61 copie

A generation on trial: U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss (1950) 50 copie

Fun & Games With Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements (1994) 36 copie

General Eisenhower on the military Churchill: a conversation with Alistair Cooke (1970) 24 copie

Alistair Cooke at the Movies (2009) 23 copie

Garbo and the Night Watchmen (1971) 16 copie

Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character (2002) 13 copie

One man's America (1952) 12 copie

The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf. Alistair Cooke (2007) 11 copie

Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999) 11 copie

Golf: The Marvelous Mania (2008) 10 copie

The Bedside Guardian 8: A Selection from the Manchester Guardian 1958-59 (1959) 8 copie

Letter from America: Vol 1 (Radio Collection) (2003) 6 copie

Letter From America, Vol. 3 (v. 3) (2005) 6 copie

The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One: Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans (2018) 6 copie

Letter from America V.2 (2003) 6 copie

The Essential Letters from America: The 1940s and 1950s (2009) 5 copie

Christmas Eve 4 copie

Alistair Cooke's Edwardian essays : from the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of "Upstairs, Downstairs" 4 copie

Letter from America Volume 1-3 (2005) 3 copie

Letters from America: The Americans, Letters from America and Talk About America (1981) 3 copie

A Decade of Masterpiece Theater Masterpieces (1981) 3 copie

London in alten Photographien 1897-1914 (1995) 3 copie

Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies, 1988-1989 (1990) 3 copie

The American in England: Emerson to S. J. Perelman (Rede Lecture) (1975) 3 copie

From Alistair Cooke's Six men : Charles Chaplin, Bertrand Russell 3 copie

A Gift from the Churchills: The Primrose League, 1883-2004 (2010) 2 copie

A Commencement Address 2 copie

The Bedside Guardian 17: A Selection From The Guardian 1967-68 (1968) — Prefazione — 2 copie

Omnibus: King Lear 2 copie

Essential Letters from America: 1970S (4 (2008) 2 copie

Getting To Know You: The Fulbright Address 1986 2 copie

Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 90s (BBC Audio) (2009) 2 copie

The State Of The Language (1984) 2 copie

Amerika : een fascinerend relaas over 200 jaar Verenigde Staten (1976) 2 copie

A Party of Change: A Brief History of the Conservatives (2010) 1 copia

Letters from America, 1946–1951 1 copia

The Bedside Guardian 17 (A selection from The Guardian 1967 - 1968) (1968) 1 copia

Christmas Eve 1 copia

All at Sea 1 copia

Alistair Cooke's Letters from America: The Elections (BBC Audio) (2008) 1 copia

Talk About America, 1951�1968 1 copia

AMERICA OBSERVED From the 1940's to the 1980's 1 copia

Reporting America 1 copia

THE PATIENT HAS THE FLOOR Signed Franklin Library (1986) 1 copia

Rare SIGNED ~ The Patient Has the Floor by Alistair Cooke (1986) The Franklin Library (1777) 1 copia

Geschichte Amerikas (1975) 1 copia

Fourth Street East: A Novel of How It Was (The Benny Kramer Novels) 1 copia

Six Friends 1 copia

Masterpiece Theatre's Family Collection 1 copia

geschichte amerikas. die vereinigten staaten vom ursprung bis zur gegenwart (1975) 1 copia

The Vintage Menchken 1 copia

Alistair Cooke, Reporting America, the life of the nation 1946-2004 1 copia

The Hasty Pudding Theatre: A history of Harvard's Hairy-Chested Heroines 1 copia

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered 1 copia

Tiffany Street: A Novel (The Benny Kramer Novels) 1 copia

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Opere correlate

The Vintage Mencken (1955) — A cura di — 680 copie

Above Washington: A Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the District of Columbia (1979) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 170 copie

Above San Francisco: A New Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the Bay Area (1975) — Prefazione — 129 copie

On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Introduzione — 113 copie

The World of George Price: A 55 Year Retrospective (1988) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 36 copie

Edwardian London (1995) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 35 copie

The Letters of Nunnally Johnson (1981) — Prefazione — 16 copie

Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (1966) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

Marilyn Monroe - Great Interviews of the 20th Century (2007) — Collaboratore — 4 copie

Alastair Cooke's America [1972 TV series] (2004) — Host — 1 copia

Etichette

Alistair Cooke (25) America (146) Americano (24) Antologia (18) Autobiografia (23) BBC (16) Biografia (181) collezione (18) consultazione (21) Copertina rigida (33) cultura americana (21) da leggere (42) Emittente radiofonica (33) Film (19) Folio Society (23) Fotografia (29) Fotografia (105) Giornalismo (112) Inghilterra (34) kindle (22) lettere (18) letto (19) Londra (53) Memorie (70) non letto (27) Novecento (38) Politica (75) prima edizione (24) saggi (159) Saggistica (270) San Francisco (27) Seconda guerra mondiale (72) Stati Uniti d'America (168) Storia (460) storia americana (156) Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America (41) Televisione (32) USA (17) Viaggio (124) Washington (24)

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Informazioni generali

Altri nomi: Cooke, Alfred (birth name)
Data di nascita: 1908-11-20
Data di morte: 2004-03-30
Luogo di sepoltura: ashes scattered in Central Park, New York, New York, USA
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: UK
USA (naturalized|1941)
Luogo di nascita: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Luogo di morte: New York, New York, USA
Causa della morte: cancer
Luogo di residenza: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, England, UK
Istruzione: Jesus College, Cambridge
Attività lavorative: reporter
radio presenter
television presenter
Relazioni: Cooke, John Byrne (son)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (teacher)
Pick, Hella (colleague)
Organizzazioni: BBC
PBS
Guardian
The Times
CBS
NBC
Premi e riconoscimenti: Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1973)

Utenti

Recensioni

Alistair Cooke's America di Alistair Cooke

Superb read. A man with a true grasp of the massive history of America and its development. His perspective of historical events come with an excellent slant and he has managed to note the many hidden aspects of American history that you would rarely find in such detail in a single place. One of the best non-fiction novels I have read.

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DavidFranks | 8 altre recensioni | Mar 22, 2024 |

Alistair Cooke's America di Alistair Cooke

Cooke does not try to cover the entire history of the USA or explain every quirk he encountered on this journey. Still, in this book, he gives a pretty fair account of who we are, where we've been, and maybe even why and how we do what we do. It's a great book to wander through, picking up information here and there. But it's also a book worth reading from front to back.

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Huba.Library | 8 altre recensioni | Feb 7, 2024 |

The Americans : fifty Letters from America on our… di Alistair Cooke

A must read.

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BrianRichards66 | Oct 4, 2023 |

Letters from Four Seasons: Pocket Penguins (Pocket… di Alistair Cooke

A slim (55 pages) volume of delight from Alistair Cooke. Anyone who ever heard his BBC broadcasts will vividly hear his voice as they read the text. Wonderful stuff.

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mbmackay | Jul 15, 2022 |

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