by Alistair Cooke · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141035345
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«Letter from America» is Alistair Cooke's collection of historical essays, published by Penguin in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Letters and essays by Alistair Cooke for the BBC covering the recent history of the United States between 1946 and 2004: the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, Watergate, 9/11 and the Iraq war, with portraits of Chaplin or Martin Luther King and topics such as jazz, golf and civil rights.
Edition within the Penguin Celebrations series; the original title of the work is Letter from America, 1946-2004.
For those interested in the history of the United States, journalism and twentieth-century radio chronicles.
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.
