Alistair Cooke (1908–2004)

Autor von Amerika. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten

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Alistair Cooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Manchester, England on November 20, 1908. He obtained his education at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. His career is based on his observations of American life and culture. Cooke worked as a correspondent for NBC and as a special mehr anzeigen correspondent for the London Times and the Guardian. He is perhaps most famous for his BBC weekly broadcast, "Letter From America," which has been successful for over fifty years because of its sophisticated wit. Cooke became well-known in the United States as host for Omnibus for nine years and later as host of the Masterpiece Theatre. He has also written numerous books including the bestsellers Alistair Cooke's America, Six Men, and Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke. In 1973, Cooke was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

Beinhaltet die Namen: Alistar Cook, Alistair Cook, Alister Cooke, Alstair Cooke, Alistair Cook, COOKE ALISTAIR, Alastair Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Allistar Cooke, Allistair Cooke, Allistair Cooke, Alistaire Cooke, Alistair Cooke's, Alistair - Commentary Cooke, RONALD A. WELLS (EDITOR) ALISTAIR COOKE

Bildnachweis: Marion S. Trikosko (1974)

Reihen

Letter from America (Radio Collection)

Letter from America (Cooke)

Werke von Alistair Cooke

Beliebt Zuletzt

Amerika. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten (1973) 1,216 Exemplare

Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004) 524 Exemplare

Six Men (1977) 410 Exemplare

The Americans (1979) 284 Exemplare

The American Home Front: 1941-1942 (2006) 264 Exemplare

Above London (1980) 215 Exemplare

Memories of the Great and the Good (1999) 152 Exemplare

Masterpieces: A decade of Masterpiece theatre (1981) 109 Exemplare

America Observed: The Newspaper years of Alistair Cooke (1988) 105 Exemplare

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006) — Autor — 104 Exemplare

The Patient Has the Floor (1777) 77 Exemplare

Talk about America (1968) 74 Exemplare

Letters from America, 1946-51 (1951) 67 Exemplare

Letters from Four Seasons (Pocket Penguins 70's) (2005) 65 Exemplare

Reporting America (2008) 60 Exemplare

A generation on trial: U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss (1950) 49 Exemplare

Fun & Games With Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements (1994) 36 Exemplare

General Eisenhower on the military Churchill: a conversation with Alistair Cooke (1970) 23 Exemplare

Alistair Cooke at the Movies (2009) 23 Exemplare

Garbo and the Night Watchmen (1971) 15 Exemplare

Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character (2002) 13 Exemplare

One man's America (1952) 12 Exemplare

The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf. Alistair Cooke (2007) 11 Exemplare

Golf: The Marvelous Mania (2008) 10 Exemplare

Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999) 10 Exemplare

The Bedside Guardian 8: A Selection from the Manchester Guardian 1958-59 (1959) 8 Exemplare

Letter from America: Vol 1 (Radio Collection) (2003) 5 Exemplare

Letter From America, Vol. 3 (v. 3) (2005) 5 Exemplare

The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One: Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans (2018) 5 Exemplare

Letter from America V.2 (2003) 5 Exemplare

The Essential Letters from America: The 1940s and 1950s (2009) 5 Exemplare

Christmas Eve 4 Exemplare

Letter from America Volume 1-3 (2005) 3 Exemplare

Letters from America: The Americans, Letters from America and Talk About America (1981) 3 Exemplare

A Decade of Masterpiece Theater Masterpieces (1981) 3 Exemplare

Alistair Cooke's Edwardian essays : from the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of "Upstairs, Downstairs" 3 Exemplare

Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies, 1988-1989 (1990) 3 Exemplare

London in alten Photographien 1897-1914 (1995) 3 Exemplare

From Alistair Cooke's Six men : Charles Chaplin, Bertrand Russell 3 Exemplare

A Commencement Address 2 Exemplare

The Bedside Guardian 17: A Selection From The Guardian 1967-68 (1968) — Vorwort — 2 Exemplare

Omnibus: King Lear 2 Exemplare

A Gift from the Churchills: The Primrose League, 1883-2004 (2010) 2 Exemplare

The American in England: Emerson to S. J. Perelman (Rede Lecture) (1975) 2 Exemplare

Essential Letters from America: 1970S (4 (2008) 2 Exemplare

Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 90s (BBC Audio) (2009) 2 Exemplare

The State Of The Language (1984) 2 Exemplare

Amerika : een fascinerend relaas over 200 jaar Verenigde Staten (1976) 2 Exemplare

Getting To Know You: The Fulbright Address 1986 2 Exemplare

A Party of Change: A Brief History of the Conservatives (2010) 1 Exemplar

Letters from America, 1946–1951 1 Exemplar

The Bedside Guardian 17 (A selection from The Guardian 1967 - 1968) (1968) 1 Exemplar

Christmas Eve 1 Exemplar

All at Sea 1 Exemplar

geschichte amerikas. die vereinigten staaten vom ursprung bis zur gegenwart (1975) 1 Exemplar

Alistair Cooke's American Journey 1 Exemplar

Talk About America, 1951�1968 1 Exemplar

AMERICA OBSERVED From the 1940's to the 1980's 1 Exemplar

Reporting America 1 Exemplar

Geschichte Amerikas (1975) 1 Exemplar

Rare SIGNED ~ The Patient Has the Floor by Alistair Cooke (1986) The Franklin Library (1777) 1 Exemplar

Fourth Street East: A Novel of How It Was (The Benny Kramer Novels) 1 Exemplar

THE PATIENT HAS THE FLOOR Signed Franklin Library (1986) 1 Exemplar

Six Friends 1 Exemplar

Masterpiece Theatre's Family Collection 1 Exemplar

Alistair Cooke's Letters from America: The Elections (BBC Audio) (2008) 1 Exemplar

The Vintage Menchken 1 Exemplar

Alistair Cooke, Reporting America, the life of the nation 1946-2004 1 Exemplar

The Hasty Pudding Theatre: A history of Harvard's Hairy-Chested Heroines 1 Exemplar

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered 1 Exemplar

Tiffany Street: A Novel (The Benny Kramer Novels) 1 Exemplar

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Zugehörige Werke

The Vintage Mencken (1955) — Herausgeber — 674 Exemplare

Above Washington. (1979) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 171 Exemplare

Above San Francisco: A New Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the Bay Area (1975) — Vorwort — 129 Exemplare

On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Einführung — 112 Exemplare

The World of George Price: A 55 Year Retrospective (1988) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 36 Exemplare

Edwardian London (1995) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben; Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 35 Exemplare

The Letters of Nunnally Johnson (1981) — Vorwort — 16 Exemplare

Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare

The Bedside 'Guardian' 15: A Selection from The Guardian 1965-1966 (1966) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare

Marilyn Monroe - Great Interviews of the 20th Century (2007) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare

Alastair Cooke's America [1972 TV series] (2004) — Host — 1 Exemplar

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20. Jahrhundert (38) Alistair Cooke (25) Amerika (146) amerikanisch/Amerikaner (24) Amerikanische Geschichte (156) amerikanische Kultur (21) Anthologie (18) Autobiographie (23) Biographie (181) Briefe (18) British Broadcasting Corporation (16) England (34) Erstausgabe (24) Essays (159) Fernsehen (32) Film (19) Folio Society (23) Fotografie (105) Fotografien (29) Gebunden (33) Gelesen (19) Geschichte (460) Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten (41) Hörfunk (33) Journalismus (112) Kindle (22) London (53) Memoiren (70) Nachschlagewerk (21) noch zu lesen (42) Politik (75) Reiseliteratur (124) Sachbuch (270) Sammlung (18) San Francisco (27) ungelesen (27) USA (168) Vereinigte Staaten (17) Washington DC (24) Zweiter Weltkrieg (72)

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Wissenswertes

Andere Namen: Cooke, Alfred (birth name)
Geburtstag: 1908-11-20
Todestag: 2004-03-30
Begräbnisort: ashes scattered in Central Park, New York, New York, USA
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: UK
USA (naturalized|1941)
Geburtsort: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Sterbeort: New York, New York, USA
Todesursache: cancer
Wohnorte: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, England, UK
Ausbildung: Jesus College, Cambridge
Berufe: reporter
radio presenter
television presenter
Beziehungen: Cooke, John Byrne (son)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (teacher)
Pick, Hella (colleague)
Organisationen: BBC
PBS
Guardian
The Times
CBS
NBC
Preise und Auszeichnungen: Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1973)

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Alistair Cooke's America von Alistair Cooke

Superb read. A man with a true grasp of the massive history of America and its development. His perspective of historical events come with an excellent slant and he has managed to note the many hidden aspects of American history that you would rarely find in such detail in a single place. One of the best non-fiction novels I have read.

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DavidFranks | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 22, 2024 |

Alistair Cooke's America von Alistair Cooke

Cooke does not try to cover the entire history of the USA or explain every quirk he encountered on this journey. Still, in this book, he gives a pretty fair account of who we are, where we've been, and maybe even why and how we do what we do. It's a great book to wander through, picking up information here and there. But it's also a book worth reading from front to back.

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Huba.Library | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 7, 2024 |

The Americans : fifty Letters from America on our… von Alistair Cooke

A must read.

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BrianRichards66 | Oct 4, 2023 |

Letters from Four Seasons: Pocket Penguins (Pocket… von Alistair Cooke

A slim (55 pages) volume of delight from Alistair Cooke. Anyone who ever heard his BBC broadcasts will vividly hear his voice as they read the text. Wonderful stuff.

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mbmackay | Jul 15, 2022 |

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