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Memories of the Great and the Good (9781559705455) Alistair Cooke




Product Details:

Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (October 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559705450
ISBN-13: 978-1559705455



Product Dimensions:

8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces

Editorial reviews Alistair Cooke wrote in the preface to this collection of 23 biographies of "tend to find most of these pieces, and look forward to the best of their subjects ball complete book of home preserving: 400 delicious and creative recipes for today hardcover." That's not to say that the impression (resident for many years in America) from a British journalist and broadcast is smug about men and women it profiles: George Bernard Shaw was a crank, Frank Lloyd Wright, a prima donna, General George Marshall, a terrible public speaker ball complete book of home preserving: 400 delicious and creative recipes for today hardcover. But Cooke made harmonious prose and insight into the important issues of stories about his subjects and invite readers to explore the people who made a difference. appreciate visionary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt because of the possible agreement with a gentleman of the press today was unthinkable: she never printed a single photo of him in his wheelchair, Vice-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Nance Garner, was a politically, the South understood. the power and back-scratching: "There is a man, as he has left," Cooke wrote in 1967, "Lyndon Johnson" - a compelling and simultaneously stapling force LBJ and weakness. Politicians and statesmen who dominate here (Cooke Winston Churchill portrait is justly famous), but the author covers writers (PG Wodehouse, Robert Frost), artists (Gary Cooper, Duke Ellington) and columnist (James Reston, Erma Bombeck) with the same prudence - . Wendy Smith - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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