Fun Games With Alistair Cooke

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497697948
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke written by Alistair Cooke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Duke Ellington to Churchill Downs, championship golf to Greta Garbo, Alistair Cooke reports on the popular sports and entertainments he loved the most This delightful anthology, drawn from Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America BBC broadcasts as well as his reporting for the Guardian, showcases the legendary journalist’s wide range of sporting pleasures, which include golf, tennis, baseball, and horse racing, and records memorable fun he had with favorite movies, theater productions, and jazz performances. Included here are perceptive portraits of sports personalities such as Gabriela Sabatini, Arnold Palmer, and Sugar Ray Robinson, whom Cooke regarded as the best fighter in the history of boxing. “A Mountain Comes to Muhammad” captures Muhammad Ali in victory; “Come-Uppance for the ‘Onliest Champion’ ” portrays him in defeat. A “Revised (Soviet) History of Baseball” humorously details Russian misconceptions about America’s pastime, a.k.a. beizbol. In “The Road to Churchill Downs,” Cooke captures the sights and sounds of Kentucky’s crown jewel and delights in the joy that his young daughter, Susan, who appears with her father on the cover of this edition, takes in the sport of kings. Sharing the spotlight are celebrities of the Hollywood variety, including Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. Filled with Cooke’s infectious enthusiasm for fun and games of wide variety, the lighter side of the legendary journalist’s output will be enjoyed by devotees of popular culture.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559703277
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke written by Alistair Cooke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1996-04-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time Alistair Cooke's best writing on a wide variety of sports - tennis, baseball, cricket, sailing, horse racing, boxing, and above all, golf, about which no one writes more brilliantly and lovingly.

Author : Nick Clarke
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705486
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke written by Nick Clarke and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of revered journalist Alistair Cooke, known to millions here as the host of Masterpiece Theatre, & to the world as the author of the weekly Letter from America.

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559704427
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem written by Brian MacArthur and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints over eighty journalistic tributes that appeared in the British press in response to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617449
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Author : Katherine L. Hall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787975540
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Stories for Comprehension Success written by Katherine L. Hall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flexible, high-interest program that can be used with all regulare and special students, grades 10-12. Each volume provides over 45 factual stories with related teaching materials, 15 at each level.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141909188
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marvellous Mania written by Alistair Cooke and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incomparable wit, the unexpected insights, the mischievous charm, the elegance and enchantment which made him famous for over sixty years as a broadcaster. Whether he is writing about the pleasures of a bout in the snow, how the 'senior golfer' secretly disguises their ageing swing, Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the U.S. Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri, or Jack Nicklaus playing - and winning - almost anywhere, (not to mention a surprising and persistent tendresse for Raquel Welch), Alistair Cooke on his favourite sport is a rare and constant pleasure.

Author : Jim Apfelbaum
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616083549
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,001 Pearls of Golfers' Wisdom written by Jim Apfelbaum and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about. - Jack Nicklaus

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046502100X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alistair Cooke's America written by Alistair Cooke and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke's acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United States has sold almost two million copies. From the nation's discovery to modern times; from the American revolutionaries to the pioneers who forged westward; from the slaves who fled north to the immigrants that sought a new life, Cooke vividly describes the spirit of the United States. Cooke's portrayal of America's dynamic history and its ever-changing present continues to provide striking insights into the remarkable character of a nation.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611459850
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of the Great and the Good written by Alistair Cooke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, which spanned more than sixty years, Alistair Cooke had known, interviewed, or reported on literally hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. Here he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians—all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place. Here, then, are scintillating portraits of characters as far apart as George Bernard Shaw and Duke Ellington, as different as the humorist Erma Bombeck and the Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock. Recounting the trials of Sir Francis Chichester, the lonely global yachtsman, or analyzing the very different but equally indomitable spirit of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Alistair Cooke allows us to understand a little better the nature of courage. His fond and sensitive recollections of P. G. Wodehouse and Gary Cooper salute two unpretentious geniuses in the ostentatious world of entertainment. His account of his long and relaxed weekend with President Dwight Eisenhower is sensitive and revealing, as is his candid but compassionate portrait of an earlier president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. His meeting with Ronald Reagan during the future president's early years as governor of California is as insightful as it is prescient. The book ends with moving and memorable portraits of two men Cooke especially admires, for different reasons: one, Winston Churchill, who for all his human flaws was "most certainly great," and the other, Bobby Jones, whom Cooke regards as "one of the three or four finest human beings I've ever known."