| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 200096 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 13:55:02. |
| Performer |
Read by John Byrne Cooke. |
| Summary |
In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our country's complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America, the Twentieth Century's de Tocqueville. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished The American home front as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher thought there would be little interest in books on the war, so it was stuffed in a closet. It stayed there for almost sixty years, nearly forgotten, until it was unearthed shortly before Cooke's death in 2004. |
| Subject |
Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004 -- Travel -- United States.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Cooke, John Byrne.
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| ISBN |
1423321200 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
| Standard No. |
9781423321156 |
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