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by Alistair Cooke · Penguin · tapa blanda · 544 pages
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Sumérgete en la historia de Estados Unidos desde 1946 hasta 2004 a través de la mirada de Alistair Cooke. Esta colección de cartas, basadas en sus legendarias transmisiones de radio de la BBC, te guiará a través de momentos clave como el asesinato de Kennedy, la guerra de Vietnam y el escándalo Watergate, hasta los eventos del 11 de septiembre y la guerra de Irak. Con retratos de figuras destacadas como Charlie Chaplin y Martin Luther King, y temas variados como los derechos civiles, el golf y el jazz, este libro ofrece una visión cautivadora de una nación en constante cambio.
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.
