Memories of the Great and Good - Hardcover

Cooke, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559704799 ISBN 13: 9781559704793

Verlag: Arcade Publishing, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 277 pages; Description: xiii, 277 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Biography --20th century. Celebrities --Biography.

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Reseña del editor:

Journalist Alistair Cooke recounts his meetings with numerous people during his sixty-year career, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jelly Roll Morton, and Erma Bombeck, and explains why each of them left the world a better or more interesting place. 75,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Born in England and educated at Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard, Alistar Cooke (1908-2004) became a U.S. citizen in 1941. He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 1973 and delivered the keynote address before both houses of Congress at the bicentennial celebrations in 1976. Cooke lived and worked in an apartment overlooking Central Park, where he raised his family and lived with his wife, Jane White, until his death.

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• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1559704799
• ISBN 13: 9781559704793
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288