AMERICA OBSERVED: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke.
Selected and Introduced by Ronald A. Wells. Pp. xiv+234(last blank), notes; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text clock slightly browned, edges of leaves lightly foxed Reinhardt Books/Viking, London, 1988. First edition. *'Fifty interpretative pieces that span the great range of Cooke's reporting: politics, literature, sport, vignettes of regional life, long-gone Presidents from Truman to Nixon, the racial turmoil of the Sixties and unforgettable profiles of Americans as various as Frank Lloyd Wright and Gary Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180522
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