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Alastair Cooke's Letter from America: 1946-2004 is a defining collection from his legendary BBC Radio broadcasts that guides us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States.

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Covering key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam and Watergate to September 11, Iraq and anticipating the 2004 elections, this book provides a defining collection of Letters from his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts.

Encompassing portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall, each Letter contributes a captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man.

'Cooke was the special relationship'
  Daily Mail

'Such experience, wisdom and education are unlikely ever again to combine in one journalist'
  Mark Lawson

'There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke, a chronicler of amazing times'
  Daily Telegraph

'The range of Cooke's experiences was awesome but he always had the personal touch'
  Jeremy Vine

'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign'
  Independent

Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television. The Guardian's Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years and the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television and of the BBC series America, Cooke was, however, best known both at home and abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of US life, was heard over five continents and totalled 2,869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004, far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history.

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Cooke's debonaire, transatlantic tones are unmistakable... -- FT Magazine, March 8, 2008
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Many will have felt great sadness at hearing about the death of Alistair Cooke earlier this year. His long broadcasting career spans spanned the greater part of the 20th century and his weekly Letter From America gave generations a marvellous insight into our powerful ally.
BBC Audiobooks is proud to be publishing this box set that includes Alistair Cooke at the BBC, plus three volumes of Letter From America and the tribute programme that Radio 4 broadcast to commemorate Cooke’s eventful life as an English journalist reporting for most of his life from America.

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  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 014103534X
  • ISBN 13 9780141035345
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