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Alistair Cooke's America

by Alistair Cooke · 1 Oct 2008 · 369pp · 121,161 words

PENGUIN BOOKS ALISTAIR COOKE’S AMERICA Alistair Cooke enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television. Born in Manchester in 1908 and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Harvard, he

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over five continents and totalled 2,869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004, far and away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. Alistair Cooke’s America PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375

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, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com First published in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2002 Published in Penguin Books 2008 1 Copyright © Alistair Cooke, 1973, 2002 All rights reserved The moral right of the author has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold

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Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma) 6. George Washington. (The Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, England) 7. Pottery figure of Franklin. (John Olson, Alistair Cooke collection) 8. Thomas Jefferson. (Courtesy of Charles F. Adams) 9. Andrew Jackson. (George Eastman House) 10. Gold panner. (Western History Collection, Denver Public Library) 11

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’s Point on the Hudson in 1782. 7. Mass-produced in Staffordshire, this pottery figure was available labeled ‘B. Franklin’ or ‘Old English Country Gentleman.’ Alistair Cooke owned one. 8. Every inch the young diplomat, Thomas Jefferson was painted by Mather Brown in London in 1786. 9. At the age of 78

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

by Stephen Fry · 27 Sep 2010 · 487pp · 132,252 words

Brooke and Dadie Rylands a hundred years ago; the ADC and Footlights were older still. Other were more recent – the Mummers had been founded by Alistair Cooke and Michael Redgrave in the early 1930s and clung to a more progressive and avant-garde identity. Many at Cambridge will tell you that the

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Lent term would see the fiftieth anniversary of the club, which had been founded in 1931 by a young Alistair Cooke. ‘We should have a party,’ said Jo. ‘And we should invite him.’ Alistair Cooke was known for his thirteen-part documentary and book, A Personal History of the United States, and his long

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fame spread, I would say to the girl next to me. ‘Hitler once apologized to me and called me sir.’ When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, ‘This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.’ ‘Wow!’ I said, duly

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John Ebden, Robert Robinson, Franklin ‘Jingle’ Engelmann, Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch, Derek Guyler, Margaret Howard, David Jacobs, Kenneth Robinson, Richard Baker, Anthony Quinton, John Julius Norwich, Alistair Cooke, David Jason, Brian Johnston, John Timpson, Jack de Manio, Steve Race, Frank Muir, Dennis Norden, Nicholas Parsons, Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Nelson Gabriel

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020

everyone there.”) In Times Square, entrepreneurs with flashlights sold secure passage for $2. “Considering the dubious occupations of some of those characters,” the BBC’s Alistair Cooke ventured, “I think I would have chosen to stagger alone.” Political conclusions were drawn. Herbert Gutman, a respected left-wing professor of labor history, said

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Weiner, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). The day broke “The Denim Inaugural,” Newsweek, January 24, 1977; Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke’s America (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 231; “Carter Is Sworn In as President, Asks ‘Fresh Faith in Old Dream,’ ” WP, January 21, 1977; Theodore

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Stamberg’s All Things Considered Book (New York: Pantheon, 1982), 91. A worker had mistakenly Ibid. and Zaretsky, Radiation Nation. “can’t tame it right” Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke’s America (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 240. “I am not a nuclear engineer” Zaretsky, Radiation Nation, 71. “irresponsible scare tactics” Carter, White House Diary

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

by Robert McCrum · 24 May 2010 · 325pp · 99,983 words

there had always been anxieties about America’s ‘corruption’ of Britain’s cultural life, usually focused on language, neologisms like ‘belittle’ and ‘hospitalize’. In 1959 Alistair Cooke complained that ‘the English vocabulary seems to have succumbed to Americanisms since the war at an unprecedented rate’. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War

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in William Safire (ed.), Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in American History (New York, 2004), pp. 591-4. 108 one Massachusetts father: quoted in Alistair Cooke, America (London, 1973), p. 156. 110 ‘We really have everything in common with America’: a paradox he later put into a story: The Canterville Ghost

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February 2007. 117 I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free’: Sandburg, Lincoln, p. 179. 118 ‘Any people,’ said Lincoln: see Alistair Cooke, America (London, 1973), p. 234. 119 but each refused: I gratefully acknowledge Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (New York, 1992), for the details of this

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At Your Fingertips’ 226 ‘the process whereby American girls turn into American women’: Christopher Hampton, Savages (London, 1974), scene 16, p. 75. 226 In 1959 Alistair Cooke complained: Alistair Cooke, America Observed (New York, 1988), p. 120. 227 Many legislators were alarmed: Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, The Story of French (Toronto, 2007

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Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (London, 2007). —, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837 (London, 2005). Cyril Connolly, Selected Works, ed. Matthew Connolly (London, 2002). Alistair Cooke, America (London, 1973). David Crystal, Language and the Internet (Cambridge, 2006). Danny Danziger and John Gillingham, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta (London, 2004). John

The Man Who Was Saturday

by Patrick Bishop · 21 Jan 2019 · 351pp · 108,068 words

people and what they were doing.’6 Neave needed a goodwill ambassador. He did not fit in comfortably with the party machinery, and according to Alistair Cooke, his political adviser from 1977, was ‘distrustful of many elements of [it] because it had served Heath’.7 Nor, in Ryder’s view, did he

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, the new job had taken him back to where he began: doing battle with what he saw as the forces of evil. He seemed to Alistair Cooke, his political adviser, ‘an elderly man … It was hard to resist the impression that … the prominence he had secured had come too late.’22 But

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“ordinary infantry operation”.’33 He was soon urging the greater use of unorthodox special forces and the intensification of counter-insurgency intelligence-gathering. According to Alistair Cooke, ‘Neave wanted to employ undercover methods in defence of democracy, just as he had during the war.’ He ‘brought a vital new ingredient to the

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Central Office when he decided to leave the diplomatic service, did not regard him as ‘part of the central driving machine’.56 His political adviser, Alistair Cooke, felt him to be ‘far from robust. [He] walked slowly, talked slowly. Everything about him was slow.’57 Yet as was often the case with

Austerity Britain: 1945-51

by David Kynaston · 12 May 2008 · 870pp · 259,362 words

stations closed at 9.00 p.m., just as Northern Music-Hall was finishing on the Home Service and a quarter of an hour before Alistair Cooke’s American Commentary. For those interested in the outcome, that left three weeks to wait before counting began, while the votes came in from the

On the Road: Adventures From Nixon to Trump

by James Naughtie · 1 Apr 2020

, true American friends ‘In this land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism, the race is on between its decadence and its vitality.’ ALISTAIR COOKE, America, BBC Television 1972 CONTENTS Introduction: Journeying 1. Into the Pickle Barrel 2. Floodtide 3. The Pursuit of Happiness 4. The Genial Revolution 5. The

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the sharp images, startling and exciting all at once, created an indelible tableau. Nearly four decades later, I made a film about the master observer Alistair Cooke after his death, using home movies he had shot in his first explorations of America in the year or two after he arrived as a

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of words that had lodged in my mind decades earlier. At the end of his majestic series for BBC Television in the early 1970s, America, Alistair Cooke, who as a writer and broadcaster introduced three generations of people in Britain to the mysteries of the place and its allure, looked to the

The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart: 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use

by Bobbi Bly · 18 Mar 2009 · 251pp · 44,888 words

), adjective Extremely presumptuous, arrogant, and overconfident. “Golf is an open exhibition of OVERWEENING ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.” – Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist and broadcaster oxidation (oks-ih-DAY-shin), noun A chemical reaction that increases the oxygen content of a compound or material

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words

ran on the front pages of newspapers around the world. London’s New Statesman declared, “The U.S. is on the brink of racial revolution.” Alistair Cooke on the BBC said it reminded him of the civil strife he’d seen in the Congo and street-fighting students in the Weimar era

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Lukas, Nightmare, 64–65. Cornell uprising: Donald Alexander Downs, Cornell ’69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the University (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969). New Statesman, Alistair Cooke, Beijing: Reeves, President Nixon, 73. See also “Yale Has Been Spared Campus Strife, but Some Administrators Are Nervous,” NYT, April 20, 1969, p. 74. Fortune

Great American Railroad Journeys

by Michael Portillo · 26 Jan 2017

the luck of her resources, Americans on the other hand like to ascribe it to nothing but character. It usually required a combination of both. Alistair Cooke Only partially formed, and burdened by domestic divisions, America nonetheless entered the nineteenth century feeling chipper. After declaring independence in 1776, it had won the