Letter From America

Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Covering key moments from the assassination of Bobby Kennedy through Vietnam and Watergate to September 11, Iraq and anticipating the 2004 elections, this book provides a defining collection of Letters from his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Encompassing portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall, each Letter contributes to a captivating portrait of a nation – and of a man.