The American Home Front - 1941-1942 (Standard format, CD, Library ed.)

In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our countrya (TM)s complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America - the Twentieth Centurya (TM)s de Tocqueville.
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. He wanted to a oesee what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace.a Working throughout the war, Cooke finished The American Home Front as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher thought there would be little interest in books on the war, so it was stuffed in a closet. It stayed there for almost sixty years, nearly forgotten, until it was unearthed shortly before Cookea (TM)s death in 2004.
The American Home Front is a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait that shows America changing from civilian pursuits to military engagement, from the production of consumer goods to materials of war. It is also a unique record of American life. Cooke travels small highways, with their advertising signs and their local typography, in an age before the interstate highway system. He chronicles the regional glories he encounters, elements of long-lost culture such as his beloved soda fountains, and the reactions of the citizens, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience under military threat. Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed relocating in hopes of jobs in a gunpowder factory, The American Home Front is the work of an experienced, talented journalist; it is intelligent, touching, and funny.

General

Imprint:	Brilliance Audio
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	May 2006
Authors:	Alistair Cooke
Dimensions:	164 x 173 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Standard format
Disks:	11
Running time:	780 minutes
Edition:	Library ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4233-2116-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4233-2116-2
Barcode:	9781423321163

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