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A Short Biography of Alistair Cooke

Author Name:

Alistair Cooke

Born As:

Alfred Alistair Cooke

Other Names:

Born:

20 Nov 1908

Died:

30 Mar 2004




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Journalist and television host                          
Selected Works:

Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character - 1940
Mencken - 1955
A William March Omnibus: with an introduction by Alistair Cooke - 1956
A Generation on Trial: The USA v. Alger Hiss - 1982
The Patient Has the Floor - 1986
Six Men - 1995
Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements - 1996
Memories of the Great and the Good - 2000
The American Home Front: 1941–1942 - 2006
Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War - 2006

"America" books:

Talk about America
Letter from America: The Early Years 1946–1968
America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s/Ronald A. Wells

Letters from America: The Americans, Letters from America and Talk About America
One Man's America
The Americans
Alistair Cooke's America - 2002

Letter from America: - 1946–2004 - 2004

The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf - 2007

Reporting America: The Life of the Nation, 1946–2004. Allen Lane. 2008

Cooke also co-authored several "coffee table" photo books.

Media:
America: A Personal History of the United States, a 13-part series on DVD, with a bonus where Cooke talks about his life.
                          
First wife Ruth Emerson, one son, 	John Byrne Cooke 
Second wife Jane White Hawkes, one daughter, Susan Byrne Cooke.