Letter from America

Alistair Cooke's Letter from America interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Spanning the last half-century from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam and Watergate to September 11, Iraq and the 2004 elections, this collection brings together the very best of his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Encompassing portraits of the great and the good from Martin Luther King to Charlie Chaplin and topics as varied as civil rights, boxing, jazz and the changing leaves of a New England fall, they offer a captivating portrait of a nation - and a man.