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The author recounts his meetings with numerous people during his sixty-year career, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jelly Roll Morton, and Erma Bombeck, and explains why each of them left the world a better or more interesting place
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9781559704793, titled "Memories of the Great & the Good" | Arcade Pub, October 14, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his meetings with numerous people during his sixty-year career, including Dwight D.
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9781611457186 | Arcade Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $14.95
9781611451900 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $19.50
9781559705455, titled "Memories of the Great & the Good" | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, October 15, 2000), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Journalist Alistair Cooke recounts his meetings with numerous people during his sixty-year career, including Dwight D.
9780786224937 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $24.95
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9781590208526 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, May 29, 2012), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Over fifty years of reportage on American life by one of the 20th century's greatest broadcasters for nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life for the BBC.
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9781590201831 | Overlook Pr, November 26, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: For nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life.
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9781408400784 | Audiogo, August 23, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This title contains Alistair Cooke's finest radio reportage from 1991-1999.
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9781611451559 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: For over half a century Alistair Cooke has been reporting on and interpreting America to the rest of the world, both in print and on the air, bringing his unique blend of curiosity, wit, and perceptive analysis to bear on the sometimes glittering, often gritty, worlds of sports and entertainment.
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9781408400760 | Audiogo, February 15, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is a collection of some of Alistair Cooke's most memorable radio Letters from the 1970s.
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9781602838055 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, January 5, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The BBC radio program Letter from America remains the longest running personal commentary on British radio.
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9781602837706 | Audiogo, September 8, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of British listeners in his weekly "Letter from America.
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9781602837690 | Audiogo, September 8, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The BBC radio program Letter from America remains the longest running personal commentary on the radio.
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9780517032954 | Outlet, August 1, 1991, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: As the United States adjusts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what makes the country work.
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9780465018826 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, August 25, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke’s acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United States has sold almost two million copies.
9780786710362 | Basic Books, October 16, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Updated in the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, this classic and personal history of the United States provides an insightful glimpse of America's dynamic and colorful past, from the discovery of America by European explorers to modern times.
9780394734491 | Random House Inc, October 1, 1977, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As the United States adjusts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what makes the country work.
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9781559708739 | Arcade Pub, May 19, 2008, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Alistair Cooke.
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9780871139399 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change.
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9780802143327 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 9, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The famed BBC correspondent furnishes an incisive, firsthand portrait of America on the home front during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation during the period as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one, as seen through the eyes of ordinary citizens.
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9781423321170 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
9781423321156 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
9781423321187 | Com/mp3 edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2006), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
9781423321217 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2006), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
9781423321163 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2006), cover price $107.25 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
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9781423321132 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 2006), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
9781423321149 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 1, 2006), cover price $92.25 | About this edition: Offers a firsthand portrait of America on the homefront during the early days of World War II, describing the dramatic changes that were occurring throughout the nation as it was transformed from a civilian society to a wartime one.
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9781443725606 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $40.95 | also contains Vintage Mencken | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
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9780679728955 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays by the distinguished journalist, representing the broad scope of his social criticism
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9781443725606, titled "The Vintage Mencken" | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $40.95 | also contains The Vintage Mencken | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9780848804657 | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1989), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The anthology that spans an entire lifetime of writing by America's greatest curmudgeon, with a "flick of mischief on nearly every page.
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9781432569730 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 15, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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9781400044023 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 9, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A collection of the author's BBC radio dispatches presents half a century of observations on the American scene, offering recollections of friends and colleagues and reflections on the Vietnam War, Watergate, September 11th, and the Iraq war.
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9780870706844 | Facsimile edition (Museum of Modern Art, September 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This now classic portrait of Douglas Fairbanks--the swashbuckling original King of Hollywood--was first published in 1940.
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9781559702973 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, April 6, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Cooke shares his views on sports and entertainment from the Kentucky Derby to Wimbeldon, Jack Nicklaus to George Gershwin, and Bobby Jones to Charlie Chaplin
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9781559703277 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, April 8, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Cooke shares his views on sports and entertainment from the Kentucky Derby to Wimbeldon, Jack Nicklaus to George Gershwin, and Bobby Jones to Charlie Chaplin
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9780821222300 | Bulfinch Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $35.00
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Product Description: During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him...read more
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9781559703246 | Arcade Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film.
9780394484341 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1977, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The erudite writer and paragon of television commentators recalls his friendships with, and the personal characteristics of, Chaplin, the Duke of Windsor, Mencken, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Bogart
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9781559703178 | Arcade Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film.
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Alistair Cooke presents highlights from his BBC Radio program, 'Letter from America,' a collection of evocative views of the United States, its people, its triumphs, and its tragedies, from the perspective of a British correspondent.
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9780553473438 | Abridged edition (Bantam Audio, December 1, 1994), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Presents selected letters originally broadcast on the popular British radio program, 'Letters from America,' featuring the author's observations on American life, culture, and history.
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9780934833059 | United States English, June 1, 1991, cover price $8.95
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9780394573427 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers more than fifty selections of the journalist's best work drawn from his twenty-six year career as chief correspondent to the British newspaper 'The Manchester Guardian'
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9780020311515 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Offers more than fifty selections of the journalist's best work drawn from his twenty-six yera career as chief correspondent to the British newspaper 'The Manchester Guardian'
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Collects the talks given by the author, over the past twenty years, to diverse groups, including physicians, architects, lawyers, military men, and university professors, on such matters as hypochondria, freedom and the soldier, and the American revolution
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9780394503653 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Collects the talks given by the author, over the past twenty years, to diverse groups, including physicians, architects, lawyers, military men, and university professors, on such matters as hypochondria, freedom and the soldier, and the American revolution
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9781555042141 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1987), cover price $16.95
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9780886460396 | Dh Audio, May 1, 1985, cover price $16.99
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