About this title: Unearthed shortly before Cookes death, this unique record of American life shows a nation switching from civilian pursuits to military engagement, and from the production of consumer goods to materials of war.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2007-07-09
ISBN-13:9780802143327ISBN:0802143326
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780871139399ISBN:0871139391
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Mint condition! Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 327 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780871139399ISBN:0871139391
Description: b/w. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8 vo. Dj w/unclipped price; maps on end papers; 327 clean, unmarked pages. read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780802143327ISBN:0802143326
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 327 pages. 7.80 x 5.30 x 0.80 in. 14.7 oz. In addition to being a broadcaster, Mr. Cooke was a print reporter, and a superb one, with a sharp, skeptical eye and a stylish pen. Both are on brilliant display here. --Despite the grim circumstances, THE AMERICAN HOME FRONT can be read, with great pleasure, as nothing more than a colorful travelogue, given poignancy by the passage of time. Cruising down two-lane highways, along ... read more
"Personal accounts of a Brit traveling driving across the US during the early years of the war. A nice account of the Home Front, from a different point of view."
"Alistair Cooke, for those who may not remember, is the long-time host of Masterpiece Theater, and an Englishman born but naturalized American who spent much of a career explaining America and Americans to listeners and readers back in the UK.
With his keen eye and ear, and a sympathy born of his curiosity about his adopted land, he was an ideal witness of how the country adapted to go to war and produce the materials that helped the Allies defeat the Axis powers.
These various dispatches, collected in book form, are never less than interesting, and always instructive, about little known aspects of life at home during the war.
I am convinced that Cooke's English background allowed him look at things from enough distance to receive impressions that might not have occurred to native-born Americans. But native-born or not, Cooke is one we can be proud to claim for our own, and one we can thank for the humanity and intelligence of his observations about a unique moment in history."
"This is certainly not the best book ever written on the American Home Front during WWII, but it may be one of the most unusual. It is basically a travelogue by Alistair Cooke who, at this time, was a recently naturalized American citizen reporting back to Great Britain for the BBC. I found his experiences and descriptions of people and places all over the U.S. and how he was able to travel around in the midst of gas rationing and shortages of rubber tires to be very informative."
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