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Alistair Cooke's American Journey (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9780141022949
Synopsis
Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War is an extraordinary travelogue, celebrating the spirit of a nation that would inspire Cooke's legendary broadcasts for the next sixty years.
Within weeks of the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941, Cooke set off to see the effects of the war on ordinary Americans, from miners to lumberjacks, Pullman porters to peanut farmers and even Japanese-Americans interned in stark desert prison camps.
Thought to have been lost for years, this enthralling account of Alistair Cooke's travels through American during the Second World War was rediscovered just before his death.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - USA
- Published : 2006 (Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780141022949
- SKU : B000185
- PPC : LL230gm
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'So vivid . . . he makes you feel you were there' - John Humphrys.
'A time capsule . . . containing the essence of a vanished America' - Independent on Sunday.
'Personal, quirky, and sometimes very funny' - Sunday Telegraph.
'Cooke's mellifluous radio voice flows from every page . . . an account of one man's love affair with an entire country. Every stop on the way glints like a facet on a diamond' - Gavin Esler.
The Author
Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 - 30 March 2004) was a British-born American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.
Featured Author . . . Alistair Cooke
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