The Resource Reporting America, Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
Reporting America, Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
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- Summary
- Offers an insight into Alistair Cooke's character and life, with his reflections on the great, the good, and the bad, covering everything from Korea, the Civil Rights Movement, JFK, Watergate, the moon landing, right up to the war in Iraq. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Introduction / by Susan Cooke Kittredge
- 1946-1959. Coming home ; The GI bill ; Harry S. Truman ; Joe Louis ; New Year's Eve, 1951 ; A year of no lynchings ; President Eisenhower ; Cancer and smoking ; Revulsion against McCarthy ; Bikini Island detonation ; The untravelled road ; Humphrey Bogart ; The USA vs. the State of Arkansas ; Castro in control of Cuba ; Hawaii : the fiftieth state ; A Catholic as candidate?
- 1960-1969. Mr. Kennedy takes over ; Fiasco in Cuba ; Gary Cooper ; Glenn home and dry ; Marilyn Monroe ; Meredith registered ; Ultimatum to USSR ; Questioning the president ; President Kennedy assassinated ; The assassination ; L.B.J., the thirty-sixth president ; Coming through ; The Los Angeles riots ; Walt Disney ; Muhammad Ali's challenge ; The permissive society ; Harvesting the grapes of wrath ; The cost of the Vietnam War ; The death of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; A mule cortège ; At the Ambassador Hotel ; Nixon hits the TV networks ; Change in the White House ; Shooting for the moon ; Chappaquiddick
- 1970-1979. Louis Armstrong ; Anti-hijacking plans ; Vietnam ; Leaving Vietnam ; Sincere according to truth ; Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst ; Nixon resigns ; President Ford ; Fall of Saigon ; President Carter ; New York "blackouts" ; Three Mile Island
- 1980-1989. A fiasco in the desert ; American extremes ; John Lennon and handgun laws ; President Reagan ; Attempted assassination of President Reagan ; Clear and present danger ; Ronald Reagan vs. Darth Vader ; Chicago ; Invasion of Grenada ; Hype ; Jesse Jackson in Cuba ; TWA hostage crisis ; Explosion of Challenger space shuttle ; Gorbachev and Reagan playing chess ; Iran-contra hearings ; New anxieties ; The new, new Bush ; San Francisco earthquake ; The Berlin Wall
- 1990-2004. Reagan's achievement ; Fighting for oil ; The passing of the blue blazer ; The O.J. Simpson case ; Microsoft and monsters ; Bill and Monica ; Our long holiday from history is over ; 'These are my times and I must know them' ; Rosa Parks ; Y2K alert ; The scandal of pardons ; 9/11 America's day of terror ; Iraq and foreign policy ; Temperatures drop ; Was Saddam a threat or not?
- Isbn
- 9781590201831
- Label
- Reporting America
- Title
- Reporting America
- Statement of responsibility
- Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Offers an insight into Alistair Cooke's character and life, with his reflections on the great, the good, and the bad, covering everything from Korea, the Civil Rights Movement, JFK, Watergate, the moon landing, right up to the war in Iraq. --
- Assigning source
- Source other than Library of Congress
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1908-2004
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cooke, Alistair
- Dewey number
- 973.92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN4874.C666
- LC item number
- A25 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Kittredge, Susan Cooke
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cooke, Alistair
- Cooke, Alistair
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Journalism
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- United States
- Label
- Reporting America, Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction / by Susan Cooke Kittredge -- 1946-1959. Coming home ; The GI bill ; Harry S. Truman ; Joe Louis ; New Year's Eve, 1951 ; A year of no lynchings ; President Eisenhower ; Cancer and smoking ; Revulsion against McCarthy ; Bikini Island detonation ; The untravelled road ; Humphrey Bogart ; The USA vs. the State of Arkansas ; Castro in control of Cuba ; Hawaii : the fiftieth state ; A Catholic as candidate? -- 1960-1969. Mr. Kennedy takes over ; Fiasco in Cuba ; Gary Cooper ; Glenn home and dry ; Marilyn Monroe ; Meredith registered ; Ultimatum to USSR ; Questioning the president ; President Kennedy assassinated ; The assassination ; L.B.J., the thirty-sixth president ; Coming through ; The Los Angeles riots ; Walt Disney ; Muhammad Ali's challenge ; The permissive society ; Harvesting the grapes of wrath ; The cost of the Vietnam War ; The death of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; A mule cortège ; At the Ambassador Hotel ; Nixon hits the TV networks ; Change in the White House ; Shooting for the moon ; Chappaquiddick -- 1970-1979. Louis Armstrong ; Anti-hijacking plans ; Vietnam ; Leaving Vietnam ; Sincere according to truth ; Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst ; Nixon resigns ; President Ford ; Fall of Saigon ; President Carter ; New York "blackouts" ; Three Mile Island -- 1980-1989. A fiasco in the desert ; American extremes ; John Lennon and handgun laws ; President Reagan ; Attempted assassination of President Reagan ; Clear and present danger ; Ronald Reagan vs. Darth Vader ; Chicago ; Invasion of Grenada ; Hype ; Jesse Jackson in Cuba ; TWA hostage crisis ; Explosion of Challenger space shuttle ; Gorbachev and Reagan playing chess ; Iran-contra hearings ; New anxieties ; The new, new Bush ; San Francisco earthquake ; The Berlin Wall -- 1990-2004. Reagan's achievement ; Fighting for oil ; The passing of the blue blazer ; The O.J. Simpson case ; Microsoft and monsters ; Bill and Monica ; Our long holiday from history is over ; 'These are my times and I must know them' ; Rosa Parks ; Y2K alert ; The scandal of pardons ; 9/11 America's day of terror ; Iraq and foreign policy ; Temperatures drop ; Was Saddam a threat or not?
- Control code
- ocn233549211
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590201831
- Lccn
- 2016479928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o233549211
- (OCoLC)233549211
- Label
- Reporting America, Alistair Cooke ; introduction and commentaries by Susan Cooke Kittredge
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction / by Susan Cooke Kittredge -- 1946-1959. Coming home ; The GI bill ; Harry S. Truman ; Joe Louis ; New Year's Eve, 1951 ; A year of no lynchings ; President Eisenhower ; Cancer and smoking ; Revulsion against McCarthy ; Bikini Island detonation ; The untravelled road ; Humphrey Bogart ; The USA vs. the State of Arkansas ; Castro in control of Cuba ; Hawaii : the fiftieth state ; A Catholic as candidate? -- 1960-1969. Mr. Kennedy takes over ; Fiasco in Cuba ; Gary Cooper ; Glenn home and dry ; Marilyn Monroe ; Meredith registered ; Ultimatum to USSR ; Questioning the president ; President Kennedy assassinated ; The assassination ; L.B.J., the thirty-sixth president ; Coming through ; The Los Angeles riots ; Walt Disney ; Muhammad Ali's challenge ; The permissive society ; Harvesting the grapes of wrath ; The cost of the Vietnam War ; The death of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; A mule cortège ; At the Ambassador Hotel ; Nixon hits the TV networks ; Change in the White House ; Shooting for the moon ; Chappaquiddick -- 1970-1979. Louis Armstrong ; Anti-hijacking plans ; Vietnam ; Leaving Vietnam ; Sincere according to truth ; Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst ; Nixon resigns ; President Ford ; Fall of Saigon ; President Carter ; New York "blackouts" ; Three Mile Island -- 1980-1989. A fiasco in the desert ; American extremes ; John Lennon and handgun laws ; President Reagan ; Attempted assassination of President Reagan ; Clear and present danger ; Ronald Reagan vs. Darth Vader ; Chicago ; Invasion of Grenada ; Hype ; Jesse Jackson in Cuba ; TWA hostage crisis ; Explosion of Challenger space shuttle ; Gorbachev and Reagan playing chess ; Iran-contra hearings ; New anxieties ; The new, new Bush ; San Francisco earthquake ; The Berlin Wall -- 1990-2004. Reagan's achievement ; Fighting for oil ; The passing of the blue blazer ; The O.J. Simpson case ; Microsoft and monsters ; Bill and Monica ; Our long holiday from history is over ; 'These are my times and I must know them' ; Rosa Parks ; Y2K alert ; The scandal of pardons ; 9/11 America's day of terror ; Iraq and foreign policy ; Temperatures drop ; Was Saddam a threat or not?
- Control code
- ocn233549211
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590201831
- Lccn
- 2016479928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o233549211
- (OCoLC)233549211
Subject
- Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004 -- Career in journalism
- History
- Journalism
- Politics and government
- Since 1900
- Social conditions
- United States
- United States -- History -- 1945-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004
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