Alistair Cooke's America
Alistair Cooke, 1973
A British-born reporter who spent fifty years explaining America to the BBC turns his notebooks into a personal history of the country.
Alistair Cooke
Cooke's BBC radio series Letter from America ran from 1946 to 2004 — 2,869 broadcasts, the longest-running speech programme in broadcasting history.
Feels like memory, identity and power.
What a lifetime of news looks like when it's recited in one breath.
During thirtyfive years as a foreign correspondent, I must have covered just about everything, from the public life of six Presidents to the private life of a burlesque stripper; from the black market in beef to the Black Panthers; from Estes Kefauver amid the snows of New Hampshire to Jack Nicklaus amid the azaleas of Augusta, Georgia; from Henry Kaiser’s Liberty ships to Francis Chichester’s Gypsy Moth sailing into Staten Island at one in the morning; from the Marshall Plan to Planned Parenthood; from Senator Joseph McCarthy’s last stand to the massacre of Muhammad Ali by Joe Frazier. Books by Alistair Cooke
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