by Alistair Cooke, Colin Webb · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141020150
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«Letter from America» is the collection of chronicles by Alistair Cooke and Colin Webb, published by Penguin UK in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Selection of the letters that Alistair Cooke broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1946 and 2004, nearly sixty years of American life interpreted for the world. It includes moments such as the assassination of Kennedy, Vietnam, Watergate and 9/11, portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Martin Luther King, and topics like civil rights, jazz or golf.
Work with subtitle «1946-2004»; Colin Webb, Cooke's literary executor, participated in the selection of texts. The programme's broadcasts totalled 2,869 episodes until Cooke's retirement in 2004.
For readers interested in the history, politics and society of the United States in the twentieth century, and in radio journalism.
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.
