Dimensions
191 x 258 x 34mm
Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth-century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy and of Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Almost all the material is previously unpublished in book form - transcripts of his legendary Letters from America, long-forgotten reports in the Guardian (whose correspondent in New York he was for thirty years) and other freshly discovered writings. This book is illustrated throughout in full colour with conic photographs of the events Cooke is describing.
