Memories of the great & the good / Alistair Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities--20th century--Biography.

Celebrities.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Memories of the great and the good

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Publishing, [1999]

Summary:

Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, which spans more than sixty years, Alistair Cooke has known, interviewed, or reported on literally hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. Here he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians--all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place.

Contents:

George Bernard Shaw

John Nance Garner: the frontiersman

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wodehouse at eighty

FDR

Maker of a president: Eleanor Roosevelt

General Marshall

Dean Acheson

Eisenhower at Gettysburg

Harold Ross

The legend of Gary Cooper

Robert Frost

Goldwater: Jefferson in the desert

Chichester: the master mariner

Reagan: the common man writ large

The Duke

Aiken of Vermont

Barbara McClintock: the gene on the cob

George Abbott

Scotty Reston: the maestro from Glasgow

Erma Bombeck: a rare bird

The last Victorian [Winston Churchill]

The gentleman from Georgia [Robert Jones, Jr.]

ISBN:

1559704799

OCLC:

42397325