London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1973 0563121823. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Very Good/Very Good. Book printed in USA with the usual superior American binding. Burgundy hardcover with white spine in unclipped BCA DJ. pp 400 including index. Maps on endpapers. A tight, clean copy; contents are bright and clean; no previous names, markings etc. The unclipped dust jacket is clean, smooth and bright. Size: super octavo 11" x 8". Expanded version of Cooke's acclaimed 13 part BBC television series. The story of the USA from before its discovery by Europeans to 1973. With many colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. This book also contains an array of paintings both old and new, drawings, cartoons, and memorabilia which supplement the narrative. A heavy book, will require extra postage. .

Sinopsis

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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Librería: David Edward Hellawell (GB)
Inventario del vendedor #: 1832
Título: Alistair Cooke's America
Autor: Cooke, Alistair
Estado del libro: Usado
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 0563121823
ISBN 13: 9780563121824
Editorial: London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1973 0563121823
Lugar de publicación: London
Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición: 1973
Palabras clave: HISTORY; TRAVEL ALISTAIR COOKE, AMERICA, EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

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