Alistair Cooke (1908–2004)

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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 toon meer 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) toon minder

Bevat de 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

Fotografie: Marion S. Trikosko (1974)

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Letter from America (Radio Collection)

Letter from America (Cooke)

Werken van Alistair Cooke

Populair Recent

Alistair Cooke's America (1973) 1,222 exemplaren

Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004) 531 exemplaren

Six Men (1977) 408 exemplaren

The Americans (1979) 290 exemplaren

The American Home Front: 1941-1942 (2006) 268 exemplaren

Above London (1980) 215 exemplaren

Memories of the Great and the Good (1999) 153 exemplaren

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

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

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006) — Auteur — 105 exemplaren

The Patient Has the Floor (1966) 77 exemplaren

Talk about America (1968) 75 exemplaren

Letters from America, 1946-51 (1951) 68 exemplaren

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

Reporting America (2008) 61 exemplaren

A generation on trial: U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss (1950) 50 exemplaren

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

General Eisenhower on the military Churchill: a conversation with Alistair Cooke (1970) 24 exemplaren

Alistair Cooke at the Movies (2009) 23 exemplaren

Garbo and the Night Watchmen (1971) 16 exemplaren

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

One man's America (1952) 12 exemplaren

Golf: The Marvelous Mania (2008) 11 exemplaren

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

Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999) 11 exemplaren

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

Letter from America: Vol 1 (Radio Collection) (2003) 6 exemplaren

Letter From America, Vol. 3 (v. 3) (2005) 6 exemplaren

The Alistair Cooke Collection Volume One: Letters from America, Talk About America, and The Americans (2018) 6 exemplaren

Letter from America V.2 (2003) 6 exemplaren

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

Christmas Eve 4 exemplaren

Alistair Cooke's Edwardian essays : from the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of "Upstairs, Downstairs" 4 exemplaren

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

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

A Decade of Masterpiece Theater Masterpieces (1981) 3 exemplaren

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

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

The American in England: Emerson to S. J. Perelman (Rede Lecture) (1975) 3 exemplaren

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

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

A Commencement Address 2 exemplaren

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

Omnibus: King Lear 2 exemplaren

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

Getting To Know You: The Fulbright Address 1986 2 exemplaren

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

The State Of The Language (1984) 2 exemplaren

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

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

Letters from America, 1946–1951 1 exemplaar

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

Christmas Eve 1 exemplaar

All at Sea 1 exemplaar

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

Talk About America, 1951�1968 1 exemplaar

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

Reporting America 1 exemplaar

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

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

Geschichte Amerikas (1975) 1 exemplaar

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

Six Friends 1 exemplaar

Masterpiece Theatre's Family Collection 1 exemplaar

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

The Vintage Menchken 1 exemplaar

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

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

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered 1 exemplaar

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

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The Vintage Mencken (1955) — Redacteur — 680 exemplaren

Above Washington: A Collection of Nostalgic and Contemporary Aerial Photographs of the District of Columbia (1979) — Introductie, sommige edities — 170 exemplaren

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On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Introductie — 113 exemplaren

The World of George Price: A 55 Year Retrospective (1988) — Introductie, sommige edities — 36 exemplaren

Edwardian London (1995) — Introductie, sommige edities; Introductie, sommige edities — 35 exemplaren

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Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren

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

Marilyn Monroe - Great Interviews of the 20th Century (2007) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren

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

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Cooke, Alfred (birth name)
Geboortedatum: 1908-11-20
Overlijdensdatum: 2004-03-30
Graflocatie: ashes scattered in Central Park, New York, New York, USA
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: UK
USA (naturalized|1941)
Geboorteplaats: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden: New York, New York, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden: cancer
Woonplaatsen: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, England, UK
Opleiding: Jesus College, Cambridge
Beroepen: reporter
radio presenter
television presenter
Relaties: Cooke, John Byrne (son)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (teacher)
Pick, Hella (colleague)
Organisaties: BBC
PBS
Guardian
The Times
CBS
NBC
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1973)

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Alistair Cooke's America door 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 andere besprekingen | Mar 22, 2024 |

Alistair Cooke's America door 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 andere besprekingen | Feb 7, 2024 |

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

A must read.

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BrianRichards66 | Oct 4, 2023 |

Letters from Four Seasons: Pocket Penguins (Pocket… door 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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