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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004. Alistair Cooke's American journey. London : Allen Lane, 2006 (OCoLC)607732363 |
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| Named Person: | Alistair Cooke |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alistair Cooke |
| ISBN: | 0713998792 9780713998795 |
| OCLC Number: | 68700189 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Map on endpapers. |
| Description: | xix, 327 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, port. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction to a war -- A passport to the people -- Through the Appalachians to the pioneers -- Deep down South -- The Gulf Coast -- The Southwest -- Westward the course of empire -- The Pacific Northwest -- The Great Plains -- From wheat to steel -- The rise and fall of New England -- Epilogue: four months in 1945 -- Envoi. |
| Other Titles: | American journey : life on the home front in the Second World War |
| Responsibility: | with a foreword by Harold Evans. |
Abstract:
Intertwined with the author's reflections on changing landscapes and cityscapes, this travelogue investigates at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically modern circumstances.
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