by Alistair Cooke · Allen Lane · tapa dura · ISBN 9780713998344
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«Letter from America: 1946-2004» is an anthology of Alistair Cooke's radio broadcasts, published by Allen Lane in hardcover (528 pages, in English).
The volume brings together a selection of broadcasts from the Letter from America program, aired weekly between 1946 and 2004. More than half of the texts appear here for the first time, and the collection portrays the history, culture and everyday life of the United States over nearly six decades.
The selection was largely prepared by Alistair Cooke himself and completed by his literary executor; the edition includes an introduction by Simon Jenkins and a note by Colin Webb.
Recommended for those interested in the history and society of the United States in the twentieth century, as well as in journalism and radio broadcasting.
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.
