An edition of Alistair Cooke's America (1973)

Alistair Cooke's America

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An edition of Alistair Cooke's America (1973)

Alistair Cooke's America

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

A tour of American life and history based on Cooke's television series on the nation's growth and development and illustrated with photographs, cartoons, prints, and paintings.

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Language
English
Pages
400

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Cover of: Alistair Cooke's America.
Alistair Cooke's America.
1973, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: Alistair Cooke's America
Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Knopf, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
- 1st ed.
Cover of: Alistair Cooke's America
Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Paradine in association with British Broadcasting Corp., Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Alistair Cooke's America
Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Prologue. A passage to America
The new-found land
A home away from home
Making revolution
Inventing a nation
Gone west
Firebell in the night
Domesticating a wilderness
Money on the land
The huddled masses
The promise fulfilled, the promise broken
The arsenal
Epilogue. The more abundant life.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
America.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973
Library of Congress
E178 .C755

The Physical Object

Pagination
400 p.
Number of pages
400

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24751045M
Internet Archive
alistaircookesam00coo
ISBN 10
0394487265
ISBN 13
9780394487267
LCCN
73007268
OCLC/WorldCat
825669

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Work Description

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 a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes on to write 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 and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush: the jazz age to Pearl Harbour: 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.

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