Reporting America
Subtitle: the life of the nation 1946-2004
By: Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
Contributors: Kittredge, Susan Cooke
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781846140471
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Career in journalism; Journalism; History
Description: "This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alistair Cooke, the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. To celebrate, we are publishing Reporting America - a magnificent new volume of previously unpublished Alistair Cooke reportage on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy and of Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Almost all the material is previously unpublished in book form - transcripts of his legendary Letters from America, long-forgotten reports in the Guardian (whose correspondent in New York he was for 25 years) and other freshly discovered writings. The book is illustrated throughout in full colour with iconic photographs of the events Cooke is describing, and contains a very moving introduction by his daughter, Susan Cooke-Kittredge."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Susan Cooke Kittredge; title: 1946-1959; title: 1960-1969; title: 1970-1979; title: 1980-1989; title: 1990-2004.