Alistair Cooke's America
by Alistair Cooke
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/None
- ISBN 10
- 0394487265
- ISBN 13
- 9780394487267
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Lubbock, Texas, United States
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About This Item
"This is a limited, and in one way a unique, edition of America. It is available, in its present printing, only to owners of this edition of The World Book Encyclopedia. It is unique in that it has been specially tooled and bound to complement your set. And it is for me a happy coincidence that the publishers of World Book should have chosen to set my book alongside the encyclopedia for its Bicentennial edition. For I have been associated for fifteen years with World Book as a member of the editorial board of The World Book Year Book." - A personal note on this special edition of America by Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America
Synopsis
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America: guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US.Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s: Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map: the pioneers who tamed the Wild West: the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush: the jazz age to Pearl Harbour: with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill: John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King: here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures: grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Revue & Revalued Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 185
- Title
- Alistair Cooke's America
- Author
- Alistair Cooke
- Format/Binding
- The binding is tight and solid.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394487265
- ISBN 13
- 9780394487267
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- America, Alistair Cooke, History, Revolution, Passage,
- Bookseller catalogs
- United States of America;
- Size
- Imperial Octavo
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