Memories of the Great & the Good
By: Alistair Cooke.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: October 14, 1999
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Biography -- 20th century; Celebrities -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Memories of the great and the good
Description: "Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, which spans more than sixty years, Alistair Cooke has known, interviewed, or reported on literally hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century.

Here he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians - all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: label: To the Reader
pagenum: ix; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xv; label: George Bernard Shaw
pagenum: 17; label: John Nance Garner: The Frontiersman
pagenum: 29; label: Frank Lloyd Wright
pagenum: 39; label: Wodehouse at Eighty
pagenum: 55; label: FDR
pagenum: 69; label: Maker of a President: Eleanor Roosevelt
pagenum: 69; label: General Marshall
pagenum: 75; label: Dean Acheson
pagenum: 89; label: Eisenhower at Gettysburg
pagenum: 101; label: Harold Ross
pagenum: 113; label: The Legend of Gary Cooper
pagenum: 123; label: Robert Frost
pagenum: 133; label: Goldwater: Jefferson in the Desert
pagenum: 143; label: Chichester: The Master Mariner
pagenum: 155; label: Reagan: The Common Man Writ Large
pagenum: 163; label: The Duke
pagenum: 175; label: Aiken of Vermont
pagenum: 187; label: Barbara McClintock: The Gene on the Cob
pagenum: 197; label: George Abbott
pagenum: 207; label: Scotty Reston: The Maestro from Glasgow
pagenum: 217; label: Erma Bombeck: A Rare Bird
pagenum: 229; label: The Last Victorian
pagenum: 239; label: The Gentleman from Georgia
pagenum: 259