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"America Observed" provides, for the first time, a collection of Alistair Cooke's memorable dispatches to "The Guardian" written between 1946 and 1972, the year that he retired as the paper's chief American correspondent. Ronald Wells has selected over 50 interpretative peices that span the great range of Cooke's reporting: politics, literature, sport, vignettes of regional life, long-gone Presidents from Truman to Nixon, the racial turmoil of the 1960s and profiles of Americans as various as Frank Lloyd Wright and Garry Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. Alistair Cooke is best know for his weekly BBC broadcast "Letter from America" which is heard in 52 countries and is the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. He is author of three collections: "Talk About America", "Letters from America" and "The Americans".
- Sales Rank: #5062691 in Books
- Published on: 1988-11-19
- Released on: 1988-11-19
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.75" h x 6.25" w x 1.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 232 pages
From Publishers Weekly
All but three of these 55 pieces, from the Manchester Guardian , date between '46 and '72; the others, more recent, are reprinted from the U.S. press. None, however, seems outdated, and the collection, as assembled by Wells, who teaches at Calvin College in Michigan, reconfirms Cooke as a judicious journalist, decent, disinterested yet ever curious, a courier of news about our country who writes graceful prose and who causes us to observe ourselves afresh. So even-tempered is this cultural interpreter that only rarely does testiness surface, as when he refers to counterculture folk as "mooching brooders." Having served as the Guardian 's American correspondent until his retirement in 1972, and as host for 42 years of the BBC's "Letter from America," Cook is a veteran observer of the way we live, and, unfailingly, has new and intelligent things to say, whether covering the middleweight championship bout between Sugar Ray Robinson and Randolph Turpin (1951), a Billy Graham rally (1955), a Miss America pageant (1966), civil rights demonstrations in the South, or writing obituaries of such disparate legends as Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred Knopf ("Simply the best publisher of the Twentieth Century"). The latter's heirs return the compliment with this tribute marking their long-time author's 80th birthday.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Recognized by many Americans as the host of Masterpiece Theatre, Cooke first became known as a perceptive interpreter of American culture and politics for Britons as chief U.S. correspondent for the Guardian . Reprinted here are 58 of his brief essays from 1946 to 1985, almost all of them from that newspapaper. The pieces range broadly. Some deal with presidential politics in Washington, others with mundane life in small towns around the country. Likewise, the tone varies from serious to tongue-in-cheek. What makes these essays interesting is Cooke's ability to discuss Americans' problems and peculiarities without mockery. Cooke displays genuine insight and wit, even in the midst of some of the most turbulent events of this century. Highly recommended. Charles K. Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For those of a certain age.
By Perry B. Alers, aka peebee
First let me say I have always had enormous respect for Alastair Cooke. For decades he was the voice of a favorite uncle who could be depended upon for detached yet sympathetic commentary about us Americans for a British audience, despite having become a US citizen and a resident here for most of his professional life. Nevertheless, this collection of many of his BBC "Letter From America" broadcasts and other writings seems rather musty, probably because the incidents reported are too recent to be history, but too remote to be of any contemporary interest. Who, flicking his iPhone, really cares about G. David Schine? There are some hilarious sports entries; one, a Soviet description of beizbol, has no need for a Cyrillic font, and another written entirely in Cricket; transparent to a Brit and pure Mesopotamian to anyone else. Probably the most interesting, and disastrous, is a piece written for the Manchester Guardian on the eve of the Dewey-Truman election, where Mr. Cooke, more in sorrow than in anger, assigns Harry Truman to the ashheap of history.
For those of us who lived through all this, the book is a trip down memory lane; for everyone else, it's a Fifties kitchen.
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Reviewing the Past
By Acute Observer
America Observed, Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke was born in Manchester in 1908 and educated at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. In 1940 he began working as a reporter for the London `Times' and then the `Manchester Guardian'. An author of books, he is best known for his radio broadcast "Letter from America", the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history. This 1988 book is a selection of his articles from the 1940s to the 1980s. This 234 page book does not have an `Index' to its 58 articles, originally daily dispatches from 1946 to 1972. The selection of articles was done by Ronald A. Wells, an academic historian at Calvin College.
The `Introduction' explains the importance or uniqueness of America. De Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s to tell Europe about a working democracy, the wave of the future that would replace aristocracy. Cooke met his first Americans when his family was required to house American troops in 1917 (no Third Amendment). Cooke attended Yale and Harvard to study dramatics and theater. He got a job as a film critic for the BBC, then as a reporter. Is the rise and fall of the American empire inevitable? Its called "imperial overstretch" (p.15), expansion beyond the ability to support it. MacArthur and Eisenhower warned against Vietnam. The national debt exploded, especially with Reagan (p.16).
If the average age of Americans is 39 then few will remember the events prior to 1972 which are described here. Cooke's article on J. Edgar Hoover may be typical of these articles. "Eight Presidents trusted and depended on him as a permanent fixture." Cooke can't explain it but Curt Gentry's biography does. Hoover got the dirt on Congressmen so he couldn't be eliminated. FDR promoted Hoover because he gathered information on his friends and enemies. It is very amusing and instructive to read Cooke's report on Truman's loss of the 1948 election! This article also tells of Truman's history of overcoming adversity all of his life. The article about Eisenhower's death wanders a lot. Was the peace and prosperity of his reign only an illusion? The involvement in Vietnam began. It was not "sheer luck" that promoted him, unless you believe Napoleon's advice on luck being very important to a General.
The article on Lyndon Johnson reminds us of his working class background (like Harry Truman). Johnson created a second New Deal in his reign. Cooke's description of a Goldwater rally speaks of the "now standard uniform for the young of all countries" but fails to describe it. Denim and a T-shirt? Goldwater's actions seem self-contradictory (p.154), or just another compromise? What caused the riot in 1965 Watts (one of the small towns of Los Angeles)? Watts had the lowest per capita income, the highest crime rate, and the highest unemployment. Cause or correlation? Great heat and high humidity are associated with civil disturbances. Watts' three-bedroom houses and little lawns would look like a dream city to the slum dwellers of Glasgow or Manchester.
Cooke's background in drama and literature shows in his description of a Billy Graham rally in Madison Square Garden. Does salvation depend on a religious revival? Would this prevent crime and juvenile delinquency? Does Public Opinion (manufactured by advertising) prevent a Christian life (p.73)? One article is about the death of Gary Cooper at age 60. An opinion poll noted the lack of confidence in the leaders and rulers of our society (p.210). [Do these figures reflect the economy?] Another article is on the scientific study of Masters and Johnson that created a scandal in 1968. Cooke describes the Democratic Convention in 1968 Chicago. Were there "Gestapo tactics"? Did this result in an election loss? [Was it an example of dirty tricks?]
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