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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004. Americans. New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1979 (OCoLC)647094217 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alistair Cooke |
| ISBN: | 0394503643 : 9780394503646 |
| OCLC Number: | 5311048 |
| Notes: | Contains 50 talks from the author's radio program Letter from America. |
| Description: | ix, 272 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Telling one country about another -- Making a home of a house -- Pegler -- Liable to get your head broke -- "Eternal vigilance"-- by whom? -- Massacre : an act of war -- La Fayette sí, Pompidou no! -- Now here is the nightly news -- Final health warning -- Judgment Day's a-comin' -- The last of the Romanoffs -- The Acheson plan -- A "frontal attack" on cancer -- The charm of China -- Angela Davis v. the Establishment -- Watergate : act one -- Justice Holmes and the doffed bikini -- Give thanks for what? -- A reactionary at six p.m. -- Watergate : act two -- Intermission : the Agnew wake -- Watergate : act three -- The Duke -- Earl Warren -- Watergate : act four -- Workers, arise! Shout "Fore!" -- The benefits of clergy -- The end of the affair -- The president goes up to the mountain -- Pacific overtures -- Haight-Ashbury drying out -- I'm all right, Jack -- No Cabinet officers need apply -- Christmas in Vermont -- The obscenity business -- The no-food plan for longevity -- The money game -- Mr. Olmsted's park -- The retiring kind -- Two for the road -- A picture on the wall -- The spy that came down in the cold -- A "proper" wedding -- Please die before noon -- The hawk and the gorilla -- A letter from Long Island -- The letter from Long Island -- The presidential ear -- A piece of paper -- In the meantime. |
| Other Titles: | Letter from America (Radio program) |
| Responsibility: | Alistair Cooke. |
Abstract:
Contains fifty talks from the author's radio program "Letters from America," commenting on American life from 1969 to 1979.
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