Alistair Cooks American Journey: Stories From The Home Front 1942 - Hardcover

Cooke, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713998792 ISBN 13: 9780713998795

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2006

Synopsis

Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for The Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand, the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter's zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians - even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.

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About the Author

Alistair Cooke was born in Manchester in 1908 and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Harvard. Throughout his long career he worked as a journalist and broadcaster for many different organisations including the BBC, The Times and the Guardian, and won numerous awards for his work. He is best known both at home and abroad for his weekly Letters from America, far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. He died in March 2004, just a few weeks after his retirement. Letter from America, a definitive selection of the Letters, is published by Penguin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713998792
• ISBN 13: 9780713998795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352