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Alistair Cooke at the Movies by Alistair Cooke
$24.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Reading Level: very good
On the 8th of October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to give his first radio talk. His subject was cinema. Cooke began film reviewing in the 1920s as a Cambridge undergraduate, and continued to broadcast on ...Show more
Alistair Cooke at the Movies by Alistair Cooke
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
On the 8th of October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, his television series "America", or his introductions to Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to give his first radio talk. His subject was cinema. Cooke began film revie ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's American Journey : Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
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 ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's American Journey : Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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, w ...Show more
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in C ...Show more
Letter from America 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in C ...Show more
Letter from America - 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United StatesWhen Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which ...Show more
Letters from Four Seasons by Alistair Cooke
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Alistair Cooke is one of the world's best-loved broadcasters, whose weekly radio dispatch Letter from America entertained listeners around the globe from 1946 until his death in 2004.
Reporting America: The Life of the Nation 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on the key moments, movements, men and women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest, and most humane, of all modern reporters and interpreters of America, his adopted country, to his native Britain and to th ...Show more
Reporting America : The Life of the Nation 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
$59.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. Published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, 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 ...Show more
Six Men by Alistair Cooke
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime an ...Show more