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100 1 $aCooke, Alistair,$d1908-2004.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089555
245 10 $aLetter from America, 1946-2004 /$cAlistair Cooke.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axx, 503 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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505 00 $tIntroduction /$rSimon Jenkins -- $tEditor's note /$rColin Webb -- $tThe 1940s -- $tThe immigrant strain -- $tDamon Runyon's America -- $tRoughing it -- $tJoe Louis -- $tWashington, DC -- $tThe fall of New England -- $tLetter to an intending immigrant -- $tThe 1950s -- $tThe summer bachelor -- $tIt's a democracy, isn't it? -- $tThe European's America -- $tGetting away from it all -- $tThe court and the Negro -- $tThe colonel of the plains -- $tHLM : RIP -- $tThe road to Churchill Downs -- $tPolitics and the human animal -- $tGeneral Marshall -- $tThe 1960s -- $tBeizbol -- $tRobert Frost -- $tThe father -- $tThe assassination -- $tLBJ -- $tHas the world gone to pot? -- $tJohn McLaren's folly -- $tThe well-dressed American, man! -- $tA lonely man -- $tVietnam -- $tA bad night in Los Angeles -- $tMaking a home of a house -- $tTelling one country about another -- $tPegler -- $t'Eternal vigilance' - by whom? -- $tThe 1970s -- $tThe letter from Long Island -- $tGive thanks, for what? -- $tThe Duke -- $tThe end of the affair -- $tI'm all right, Jack -- $tNo cabinet officers need apply -- $tChristmas in Vermont -- $tMr. Olmsted's park -- $tThe retiring kind -- $tTwo for the road -- $tThe spy that came down in the cold -- $tA letter from Long Island -- $tThe presidential ear -- $tThe 1980s -- $tBringing up baby -- $tAttempted assassination of President Reagan -- $tThe Fourth of July -- $tOld man Reagan -- $tInaugurals - on and off -- $tMemories of 11 November -- $tMiss much - no regret -- $tExpert witness -- $tThe drugs blight -- $tTime to retire -- $tMartin Luther King - the black Washington -- $tFred Astaire -- $tOrigins of American slang -- $tMayor Koch at work -- $tHurricanes -- $tChaplin - the last word -- $tSan Francisco earthquake -- $tThe 1990s -- $tPresidential ghosts -- $tThe end of the eighties - great or greedy? -- $tFighting in what? -- $tRiots in Los Angeles -- $tWhite House style -- $tThe Irish in New York City -- $t'Give me your tired, your poor ...' -- $tThirtieth anniversary of Kennedy assassination -- $tBoston -- $tTrick or treat -- $tFiftieth anniversary of VE day -- $tO.J. - the verdict -- $tThe old rocking chair -- $tSilver Watergate -- $tThe end of civilization -- $tThe Kennedy missile tapes -- $tThe evolution of the grand jury -- $tThe president will address the nation -- $tNew words for objects new and old -- $tLoneliness, male companionship and the hunt -- $tPark Avenue's colourful Christmas -- $t2000 - 2004 -- $tThe death of the old media -- $tRunning mates and carpetbaggers -- $tThe day of judgement -- $tThe origin of the continental blow-out -- $tAmerica's day of terror -- $tAmerica on standby -- $tThe stars and stripes -- $tMessiah at Christmas -- $tRinging the changes -- $tArise, Sir Rudolph -- $tThe day the money stopped -- $tMemory of a true great -- $tThe last of the old-time gangsters -- $tFarewell to San Francisco -- $tRemembering a dear friend -- $tMeeting the stars -- $tThe pledge of allegiance -- $tTowering glass and steel -- $tCharlie Addams -- $tThe Democrats' growing confidence.
520 1 $a"For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America." "Here, in print for the first time, is a collection of Cooke's finest reports that celebrates the inimitable style of this wise and avuncular reporter. Beginning with his first letter in 1946, a powerful description of American GIs returning home, and ending with his last broadcast in February 2004, in which he expressed his views on the United States presidential campaign, the collection captures Cooke's unique voice and gift for telling stories."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140291
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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