/blogentry/125551 eddessaknight's Blog: AMERICA: "Liberty is the luxury of self discipline" ~Alistair Cook en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator /blogentry/125551#c175341 /blogentry/125551#c175341 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:10:00 GMT eddessaknight <br />Alistair Cooke is one of my heroes, along with H.L.Mencken

]]> eddessaknight /blogentry/125551 /blogentry/125551 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:53:36 GMT eddessaknight Famous Historian on America, brief extract BBC interview by Charlie Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPQxDvNL8I

Alistair Cooke on America 50th Anniversary

Alistair Cooke, KBE (20 November 1908 30 March 2004) was a British journalist in adopted homeland, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

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