Download or read book Fun Games with Alistair Cooke written by Alistair Cooke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Duke Ellington to Churchill Downs, championship golf to Greta Garbo, Alistair Cooke reports on the popular sports and entertainments he loved the most This delightful anthology, drawn from Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America BBC broadcasts as well as his reporting for the Guardian, showcases the legendary journalist’s wide range of sporting pleasures, which include golf, tennis, baseball, and horse racing, and records memorable fun he had with favorite movies, theater productions, and jazz performances. Included here are perceptive portraits of sports personalities such as Gabriela Sabatini, Arnold Palmer, and Sugar Ray Robinson, whom Cooke regarded as the best fighter in the history of boxing. “A Mountain Comes to Muhammad” captures Muhammad Ali in victory; “Come-Uppance for the ‘Onliest Champion’ ” portrays him in defeat. A “Revised (Soviet) History of Baseball” humorously details Russian misconceptions about America’s pastime, a.k.a. beizbol. In “The Road to Churchill Downs,” Cooke captures the sights and sounds of Kentucky’s crown jewel and delights in the joy that his young daughter, Susan, who appears with her father on the cover of this edition, takes in the sport of kings. Sharing the spotlight are celebrities of the Hollywood variety, including Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. Filled with Cooke’s infectious enthusiasm for fun and games of wide variety, the lighter side of the legendary journalist’s output will be enjoyed by devotees of popular culture.
Download or read book Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke written by Alistair Cooke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1996-04-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time Alistair Cooke's best writing on a wide variety of sports - tennis, baseball, cricket, sailing, horse racing, boxing, and above all, golf, about which no one writes more brilliantly and lovingly.
Download or read book Alistair Cooke written by Nick Clarke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of revered journalist Alistair Cooke, known to millions here as the host of Masterpiece Theatre, & to the world as the author of the weekly Letter from America.
Download or read book Memories of the Great and the Good written by Alistair Cooke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Cooke presents a gallery of portraits and sketches of 23 of the most fascinating characters he has known, admired, or covered during his long and distinguished career, including Winston Churchill, Duke Ellington, and George Abbott.
Download or read book Golf written by Alistair Cooke and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a fateful day in 1964, legendary journalist Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortlandt Park in New York City to play his first game of golf and was immediately hooked. Golf became his greatest passion, even though he called it “a method of self-torture, disguised as a game.” Few have written more brilliantly or more lovingly about golf than he does here in this collection. For the first time, Golf gathers together the best of Cooke’s writing on what he called “the marvelous mania.” This stunning collection showcases the incomparable wit and mischievous charm that made Cooke one of the greatest journalists and broadcasters and “one of the most effective interpreters of the American way of life to the world” (New York Times) of the twentieth century. Whether it is Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree heat in San Antonio; dapper Gary Player winning the US Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri; or Jack Nicklaus playing—and winning—almost everywhere, Alistair Cooke on his favorite sport is a rare and constant pleasure. This is a book no golfer—pro or amateur—should go without. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book The Marvellous Mania written by Alistair Cooke and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incomparable wit, the unexpected insights, the mischievous charm, the elegance and enchantment which made him famous for over sixty years as a broadcaster. Whether he is writing about the pleasures of a bout in the snow, how the 'senior golfer' secretly disguises their ageing swing, Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the U.S. Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri, or Jack Nicklaus playing - and winning - almost anywhere, (not to mention a surprising and persistent tendresse for Raquel Welch), Alistair Cooke on his favourite sport is a rare and constant pleasure.
Download or read book Requiem written by Brian MacArthur and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints over eighty journalistic tributes that appeared in the British press in response to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.
Download or read book Six Men written by Alistair Cooke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball 2d ed written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Download or read book Alistair Cooke s America written by Alistair Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States adjusts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what makes the country work. It is 30 years now since Alistair Cooke's award-winning 'personal history of the United States' appeared on TV and in the bestseller lists. Since then empires have fallen, reputations have been made and lost and 'globalization' has entered the dictionary. Time is a stern test for historians and this highly perceptive and wonderfully readable account has proved itself a classic.ALISTAIR COOKE'S AMERICA traces the history of America from the eve of discovery by European explorers to modern times: the young nation fighting for independence and forging its identity; the indomitable spirit of those who set out to tame the West; the fate of slaves and their masters; the 'huddled masses' who came seeking a new life. For this new edition, Alistair Cooke has written a compelling introduction and final chapter, bringing the story up to date with the inimitable wisdom that has engaged his audiences and readers for over half a century.
Download or read book Alistair Cooke s American Journey written by Alistair Cooke and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter’s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians – even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke’s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.
Download or read book A Letter to America written by David L. Boren and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful wake-up call to all Americans With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up call to Americans, A Letter to America, forces us to take a bold, objective look at ourselves. In A Letter to America, Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers us an ambitious, hopeful plan. What the country needs, Boren asserts, are major reforms to restore the ability of our political system to act responsibly. By relying on our shared values, we can replace cynicism with hope and strengthen our determination to build a better future. We must fashion a post–Cold War foreign policy that fits twenty-first-century realities—including multiple contending superpowers. We must adopt campaign finance reform that curbs the influence of special interests and restores political power to the voters. Universal health care coverage, budget deficit reduction, affordable higher education, and a more progressive tax structure will strengthen the middle class. Boren also describes how we can renew our emphasis on quality primary and secondary education, revitalize our spirit of community, and promote volunteerism. He urges the teaching of more American history and government, for without educated citizens our system cannot function and our rights will not be preserved. Unless we understand how we became great, we will not remain great. The plan Boren puts forward is optimistic and challenges Americans to look into the future, decide what we want to be and where we want to go, and then implement the policies and actions we need to take us there.
Download or read book America Observed written by Alistair Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America Observed provides, for the first time, a collection of Alistair Cooke's memorable dispatches to The Guardian written between 1946 and 1972, the year that he retired as the paper's chief American correspondent.
Download or read book Masterpieces written by Alistair Cooke and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1981 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Cooke's essays about the history, personalities and literary works that shaped the programs that have appeared on Masterpiece Theatre.
Download or read book Alistair Cooke written by Nick Cooke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the preeminent journalists of the twentieth century, Alistair Cooke has enjoyed a truly extraordinary career in print, radio, and television. Born into a working-class family and christened Alfred, Cooke swiftly broke free of his modest origins and became the foremost commentator on American life and politics, first for the British press and eventually for the entire world. Alistair Cooke: A Biography is both a fascinating record of one man's determination to reinvent himself and a lively and informative journey through the highways and byways of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Patient Has the Floor written by Alistair Cooke and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to hypochondria, from the host of Masterpiece Theater.
Download or read book Alistair Cooke at the Movies written by Alistair Cooke and published by Lane, Allen. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 October 1934, long before the wider world knew him from his Letter from America broadcasts, his television series America, or his introductions to Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke sat down at a BBC microphone to give his first radio talk. His subject was cinema. The Corporation's new film critic, he was twenty-five, cocky, fresh from a glittering university career at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. The BBC knew they had found a perfect radio voice – fluent, conversational, a voice you wanted to listen to. He relinquished his job in 1937, when he left to live in what had become his promised land: America. Cooke began film reviewing in the 1920s as a Cambridge undergraduate, and continued to broadcast on cinema from New York. With the Second World War, the coverage of real lives and dramas finally took priority, but throughout his long career reporting on America for the BBC and the Guardian newspaper his fascination with cinema never faded. Under his watchful gaze, Hollywood reached its Golden Age, only to be tarnished by television; he clocked every new technological development, from the arrival of talkies to the video cassette. He also observed cinema's personalities, writing tributes to Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, James Cagney and others, always illuminating their special gifts and the way they reflected the American scene. Since the 1930s, Alistair Cooke's lively film reviews have largely slumbered unpublished and unheard. Alistair Cooke at the Movies selects the most sparkling. It also salutes Cooke the reporter, documenting everything from the trauma of the Hollywood blacklist to the robbery of Zsa Zsa Gabor's jewels. Finally, we meet Cooke the biographer, affectionately recalling various stars he knew and admired, among them Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart. Covering seventy-five years of journalism, from 1928 to 2003, this is a fascinating new collection for Cooke's devoted readers and listeners, and for anyone interested in the 20th century parade of American and European films.
