Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke is written by Nick Clarke and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0297643789 (ISBN 10) and 9780297643784 (ISBN 13).

"In a BBC career spanning 65 years, Alistair Cooke has given little more than tantalizing glimpses of the man behind the microphone. Only in his late eighties did he break a steadfast rule, allowing a biographer close enough to tell the whole compelling story of his life and times. As Nick Clarke has discovered in many hours of interviews, Alistair Cooke's life story is full of surprises. Born in the back streets of Salford, brought up in a Blackpool boarding house and christened plain Alfred, he swiftly broke free from his modest origins. He swept through Cambridge, changed his name and was soon on nodding terms with the Prince of Wales." "Drawing on a rich variety of private and public sources, Clarke shows how Cooke carved out for himself, with dogged determination, a unique position as a commentator on American life and politics for the BBC and - in parallel - the Manchester Guardian. And how, when many men might have moved sedately towards retirement, Cooke launched energetically into new careers, becoming a familiar television face in the US on Masterpiece Theatre and completing his epic BBC series and book, America." "Alistair Cooke: The Biography is a record of sixty years of Anglo-American misunderstanding and one man's tireless efforts to put the record straight."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved