Alistair Cooke's America
by Alistair Cooke
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For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America: guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US.Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map: the pioneers who tamed the Wild West: the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush: the jazz age to Pearl Harbour: with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill: John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King: here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures: grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation.
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Histoire, History, Nonfiction, Politics and government, Civilization, Geschichte, Kultur, United states, historyPlaces
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Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Paradine in association with British Broadcasting Corp., Alfred A. Knopf
in English
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Alistair Cooke's America.
1973, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
in English
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Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Knopf, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
- 1st ed.
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Alistair Cooke's America
1973, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
in English
- 1st ed.
0394487265 9780394487267
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Full leather binding embossed in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; issued in slipcase covered in marbled paper.
Maps on flyleaves.
"Edition limited to 250 numbered copies bound on the occasion of the American Bicentennial celebration."
Includes index.
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