Memories Of The Great & The Good

Stock Code:
BAD5708
Price:
$25.00

Description

Memories Of The Great & The Good by Alistair Cooke. For over a quarter of a century as Chief American Correspondent of The Guardian, and throughout more than fifty years of broadcasting his Letter from America, Alistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. Here he has collected his memories of a score or more of them. They include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a hilariously funny one, a world famous architect, the man who "restored the fabric" of war-devastated Europe; three Presidents and several other politicians: all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place. The book ends with a moving and memorable portrait of two men: Winston Churchill, who was for all his human flaws "most certainly great", and Bobby Jones, whom Alistair Cooke regards as not only the greatest golfer of the century but as "one of the three or four finest human beings I have ever known.

Details

  • Author:
    Cooke, Alistair
  • Book Condition:
    Very Good
  • Publisher:
    Pavilion Books Ltd, London
  • Edition:
    First
  • Jacket Condition:
    Good Plus
  • Binding:
    Hard Cover
  • Location:
    A2
  • ISBN:
    1862053421
  • Size:
    8vo
  • Pages:
    255
  • Publish Date:
    1999
Stock Level:
1 In Stock
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