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Alistair Cooke's America: 50th Anniversary Edition

Alistair Cooke's America: 50th Anniversary Edition

Cooke, Alistair
Webb, Justin

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTravel WritingGeneral United States History

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ISBN10: 1398114537
ISBN13: 9781398114531
Publisher: Amberley Pub
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 352
Language: English
A new edition of Alistair Cooke's classic work, which has sold more than 2 million copies to date. Full of Cooke's signature wit and wisdom, this is a lucid and illuminating history of the United States. Republished to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic BBC series.

For over sixty years Alistair Cooke wrote and broadcast on every facet of American life with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his personal history of America the best-selling book that accompanied his legendary BBC television series which was first broadcast in November 1972.

It has sold over two million copies and has emerged through tumultuous times to become regarded as a classic. It is an irresistibly readable guide to what has made this powerful democracy work and survive through 200 years.

Cooke writes with engaging wit and wisdom about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldiers who fought for independence, the slaves who fled north, the tycoons who built fortunes and the immigrants that sought a new life. From the Mayflower to the gold rush, the jazz age to Pearl Harbor, with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill, John D Rockefeller and Martin Luther King, here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation.

This anniversary edition includes the reflective foreword that Alistair Cooke wrote in 2002.

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