Alistair Cooke's American Journey
Life on the Home Front in the Second World War
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 c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190472-6
- EAN: 9780141904726
- Produktnummer: 17830751
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'395 KB
Über den Autor
Alistair Cooke was born in Manchester in 1908 and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and Harvard. Throughout his long career he worked as a journalist and broadcaster for many different organizations including the BBC, The Times and the Guardian, and won numerous awards for his work.
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