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Alistair Cooke
AuthorBooks · Second hand1908-2004
Alistair Cooke, KBE was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He is the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.
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Birth
1908
Death
2004
Alistair Cooke, KBE was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He is the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.
Alistair Cooke was a distinguished journalist and broadcaster who built cultural bridges between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Born in Salford in 1908, he enjoyed a prolific career that spanned over a century of history.
His most iconic work, Alistair Cooke's America, offers a profound look at American social and political life.
Throughout his life, he published a total of 126 works exploring the complexities of society and history.
As a key figure in radio and television, he became an iconic voice that defined 20th-century journalism.
