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Goldstone Books
Ammanford, Carms, GBR
Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front 1941-1945 (Hardcover)Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Price: $18.54
Seller: The Book Tree, Devizes, Wilts, GBR
Condition: Like New in Like New jacket
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Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World... (Hardcover)Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: $36.06
Seller: Alpha 2 Omega Books, Southampton, Hants, GBR
Condition: New in New jacket
Notes: Mint condition. Allen Lane, 2006. First edition-5th printing. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. Illustrated with a map inside the front and back cover, colour, b/w photos, drawings. The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edge of the pages. Foreword by Harold Evans.339pp including List of illustrations, index. Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for The Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, with a reporter's zeal, Cooke set off on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians-even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. Intertwined with his reflections on changing landscapes and cityscapes and with his unique storytelling skills and insight, his acute ability to define detail and catch the sounds and syntax of different regional accents, this is Alistair Cooke moving into his prime as a reporter and a writer. His prescient observations on what was happening and considerations on where America was headed provide a clearer understanding of a critical moment in world history just prior to the dropping of the Atomic bomb. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke's reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.
Other Available Formats Seller Information Price Alistair Cooks American Journey: Stories From the Home Front 1942 (Hard cover)
Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Condition: Very Good
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Waltham, MA, USA$8.80 Alistair Cooks American Journey: Stories From the (Hard cover)
Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Condition: Very Good
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Victoria, BC, CAN$14.99 Alistair Cookes American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 06/29/2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
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Gloucester, GLOS, GBR$16.58 Alistair Cookes American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 06/29/2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
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Gloucester, GLOS, GBR$16.58 Alistair Cookes American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 06/29/2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
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Gloucester, GLOS, GBR$16.58 Alistair Cookes American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 06/29/2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Description: Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
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Gloucester, GLOS, GBR$16.58 Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
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Condition: Very good
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LONDON, LONDON, GBR$18.34 Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Description: Pages clean with images and text bright. No markings. Unclipped dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
Condition: Very good jacket
Halcyon Books
LONDON, LONDON, GBR$18.34 Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Pub. Date: 06/29/2006
Publisher: Allen Lane
Condition: Very good
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Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War is an extraordinary travelogue, celebrating the spirit of a nation that would inspire Cooke's legendary broadcasts for the next sixty years. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Cooke set off to see the effects of the war on ordinary Americans, from miners to lumberjacks, Pullman porters to peanut farmers and even Japanese-Americans interned in stark desert prison camps. Thought to have been lost for years, this enthralling account of Alistair Cooke's travels through American during the Second World War was rediscovered just before his death. 'So vivid ... he makes you feel you were there' John Humphrys 'A time capsule ... containing the essence of a vanished America' Independent on Sunday 'Personal, quirky, and sometimes very funny' Sunday Telegraph 'Cooke's mellifluous radio voice flows from every page ... an account of one man's love affair with an entire country. Every stop on the way glints like a facet on a diamond' Gavin Esler Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print, radio and television. The Guardian's Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years and the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television and of the BBC series America, Cooke was, however, best known both at home and abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of US life, was heard 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.
- PID: 17350619892
- ISBN-13: 9780713998795
- Publisher: Allen Lane
- Date Published: 2006
- Seller: Goldstone Books
Condition: Very good
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