Background
Cooke, Alfred Alistair was born on November 20, 1908 in Manchester, England. Naturalized, 1941. Son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth (Byrne) Cooke.
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1st edition signed by author. Gilded all around. Hobbled spine. Marbled end papers. Beautiful book!
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( Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices ...)
Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices in broadcast journalism In his Letter from America reports for the BBC and as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke addressed millions of people all over the world every week. The fourteen essays collected here, each of which was first delivered as a speech, showcase the wit, charm, and eloquence of Cooke’s voice in more intimate, but no less intimidating, settings. In exclusive forums as varied as the Mayo Clinic and a conference of British and American scholars investigating the “state of the language,” Cooke eagerly challenges expert opinions and delightfully skewers the pretensions of the powerful. Addressing the House of Representatives on the bicentennial of the Continental Congress, he warns against the dangers of sentimentalizing history and wryly notes that “practically every man who signed the Declaration of Independence is at this moment being measured for a halo or, at worst a T-shirt.” At the Royal College of Surgeons in London, he compares his listeners to armed robbers and to the disreputable half of that infamous duo Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. “If I could be benevolent dictator of the United States for a year,” he informs the National Trust for Historic Preservation, “I should provide several million jobs for the wrecking industry.” No one played the devil’s advocate with as much grace and good humor as did Alistair Cooke. The Patient Has the Floor is an eminently quotable testament to his extraordinary talents as a journalist, scholar, and public speaker.
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("America Observed" provides, for the first time, a collec...)
"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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(The renowned journalist and former host of Masterpiece Th...)
The renowned journalist and former host of Masterpiece Theatre shares his views on sports and entertainment from the Kentucky Derby to Wimbeldon, Jack Nicklaus to George Gershwin, and Bobby Jones to Charlie Chaplin. 15,000 first printing.
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The renowned journalist and beloved former host of Masterpiece Theatre writes about his lifelong fascination with the worlds of sports and entertainment.
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( Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreig...)
Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, which spanned more than sixty years, Alistair Cooke had known, interviewed, or reported on literally hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. Here he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians—all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place. Here, then, are scintillating portraits of characters as far apart as George Bernard Shaw and Duke Ellington, as different as the humorist Erma Bombeck and the Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock. Recounting the trials of Sir Francis Chichester, the lonely global yachtsman, or analyzing the very different but equally indomitable spirit of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Alistair Cooke allows us to understand a little better the nature of courage. His fond and sensitive recollections of P. G. Wodehouse and Gary Cooper salute two unpretentious geniuses in the ostentatious world of entertainment. His account of his long and relaxed weekend with President Dwight Eisenhower is sensitive and revealing, as is his candid but compassionate portrait of an earlier president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. His meeting with Ronald Reagan during the future president's early years as governor of California is as insightful as it is prescient. The book ends with moving and memorable portraits of two men Cooke especially admires, for different reasons: one, Winston Churchill, who for all his human flaws was "most certainly great," and the other, Bobby Jones, whom Cooke regards as "one of the three or four finest human beings I've ever known."
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(Above London. Visitors to England who marvel at this lush...)
Above London. Visitors to England who marvel at this lush land on their first incoming flight now have a volume to treasure forever. Here are the famed gardens, the majestic estates, the granduer of centuries of architecture. Along with Robert Cameron's areial photographs Alistair Cooke's text is brimming with the raconteur's characteristic wit and insight. The pictorial essay begins at the Thames and follows the history of the beloved city well into the countryside.
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(Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January...)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.[1] Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. Many of his books remain in print.
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(Alistair Cooke has put together this wholly new anthology...)
Alistair Cooke has put together this wholly new anthology, in its author's seventy-fifth year, as evidence of his belief that Mencken remains, on the contrary, one of the great American humorists and "the master craftsman of daily journalism in the twentieth century."
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FACSIMILE: Reproduction Address at the commencement dinner, Harvard university [FACSIMILE] Originally published by [Cambridge? Mass.] in 1889. Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text. 22 pages.
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“There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times.” —The Daily Telegraph As the voice of the BBC’s Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the BBC, Cooke had “a virtuosity approaching genius in talking about America in human terms.” This second collection of Cooke’s personally selected letters covers tumultuous events in American history such as the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. His analysis of the origins of the conflict in Vietnam is clear eyed and compelling, and in three thoughtful and incisive essays—on Brown v. Board of Education, the struggle to integrate the Deep South, and the riots in Watts—Cooke identifies the changing racial attitudes that defined the era. He reflects on the rise of drug use among college students and offers a paean to the beauty of Golden Gate Park. With characteristically incisive portraits of political and cultural figures such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Frost, H. L. Mencken, Charles Lindbergh, and John Glenn, Talk About America: 1951–1968 is rich with humor, compassion, and commitment. In this superb overview of an astonishing era in America’s twentieth century, Alistair Cooke is at the top of his game.
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Cooke, Alfred Alistair was born on November 20, 1908 in Manchester, England. Naturalized, 1941. Son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth (Byrne) Cooke.
1st class English Tripos, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1929. Bachelor, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1930. Commonwealth Fund fellow, Yale, 1933.
Commonwealth Fund fellow, Harvard University, 1934. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Edinburgh, 1969. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Manchester, 1973.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. Andrew's University, 1976. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Cambridge University, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Yale University, 1993.
Film critic British Broadcasting Corporation, 1934-1937, British Broadcasting Corporation commentator on American affairs, since 1938. London correspondent NBC, 1936-1937. Special correspondent American affairs London Times, 1938-1942.
American feature writer London Daily Herald, 1941-1943. United Nations correspondent (Manchester) Guardian, 1945-1948, chief United States correspondent, 1948-1972. Host Public Broadcasting Service Series Masterpiece Theater, 1971-1992.
Scholar Jesus College, Cambridge, honorary fellow, 1986.
(Alistair Cooke has put together this wholly new anthology...)
(For over several decades as The Guardian's Chief American...)
( Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices ...)
( Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreig...)
("America Observed" provides, for the first time, a collec...)
(The renowned journalist and former host of Masterpiece Th...)
( The renowned journalist and beloved former host of Mast...)
(FACSIMILE: Reproduction Address at the commencement dinne...)
(Eight essays on pleasure and pain in the movies; solicite...)
( “There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a c...)
(British first edition of THE PATIENT HAS THE FLOOR, signe...)
(Delightful book from Alistair Cook on changing America.)
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(Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January...)
(Above London. Visitors to England who marvel at this lush...)
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Television emcee: Omnibus, 1952-1961. Writer, narrator: television series America: A Personal History of the United States, 1972-1973. (4 Emmy awards 1973).
Author: Douglas Fairbanks, 1940, A Generation On Trial, 1950, One Man's America, 1952, Christmas Eve, 1952, A Commencement Address, 1954, Talk About America, 1968, Alistair Cooke's America, 1973, reprinted 2002, Six Men, 1977, reprinted 96, The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on our life and times, 1979, Masterpieces, 1981, The Patient Has the Floor, 1986, America Observed, 1988, Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke, 1994, Memories of the Great and the Good, 1999. Co-author: Above London, 1980. Editor: Garbo and the Night Watchmen, 1937, The Vintage Mencken, 1955, The Granta, 1931-1932.
Narrator: March of Time, 1938-1939. On-screen narrator: Three Faces of Eve, 1957.
Member of The Links New York City (honorary life), Lotos Club (honorary life), National Arts Club New York City (honorary life), Players Club (honorary life), San Francisco Golf Club (honorary life).
Married Ruth Emerson. 1 child, John Byrne; Married Jane White Hawkes. 1 child, Susan Byrne.