Letters from Four Seasons

by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke is one of the world's best-loved broadcasters, whose weekly radio dispatch 'Letter from America' entertained listeners around the globe from 1946 until his death in 2004. Penguin have proudly published editions of Cooke's Letters since 1979, and those in Letters from Four Seasons have been specially selected along the theme of the changing seasons to show the range, intimacy and elegance of his inimitable style.

Genres: Essays, Nonfiction

55 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Books of British-American journalist and broadcaster Alfred Alistair Cooke include Around the World in 50 Years (1966) and Alistair Cooke's America (1973).

After the University of Cambridge graduated him, the British Broadcasting Corporation hired him. This legendary television host rose to prominence for his reports on London Letter on radio of National Broadcasting Corporation during the 1930s. Cooke immigrated to the United States in 1937. In 1946, he began his radio appearances on Letter from America on the British Broadcasting Corporation; this tradition that lasted nearly six decades.

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Reviews

[Nofar Spalter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alistair Cooke was born in 1908, and this book feels like a book written by a British American conservative white man born in 1908. He knows how to write, and he's a fountain of knowledge, but it's difficult to read some of his sentiments these days.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’d never heard of Alistar Cooke and truthfully I only picked this up because it was 50 something pages and I wanted to reach my reading goal lol. It’s a couple of letters sent by Alistar that have seasonal themes, slightly underwhelming but still some lovely writing

[Coenraad · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this booklet seven of Alistair Cooke's letters from America are presented, selected because they depict an aspect of a particular season on the United States. Spring in Atlanta, the nature of being a summer batchelor in New York, the spectacular fall of New England, and snow at Christmas time ... a wide-ranging series of topics, discussed in leisurely style. In terms of dates the entries vary from 1949 until 2002, two years before the author died. His keen observation and his insightful ability to express what he notices combine to entertain and subtly inform. I was most interested in his comments upon Christmas, especially the way in which Dickens's A Christmas carol shaped the British Victorian Christmas celebration.

Alistair Cooke skryf rustig en wydlopend oor aspekte van die seisoene in die VSA. Sy fyn waarnemingsvermoë en sy taalgebruik verseker vermaak én inligtingoordrag.

[Ian McHugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nobody wrote about the USA like Alistair Cooke. This little book is a lovely snapshot into six different aspects of American life on four different seasons of the year. Wonderfully evocative and a book I'll return to again and again when I get wistful for the States.

[Mike Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

short book, even shorter review - here

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[Brian Wilson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was utterly bored by this book.