Alistair Cooke's American journey : life on the home front in the Second World War /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004 (συγγραφέας.)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Evans, Harold (συγγραφέας προλόγου,, αφηγητής.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Allen Lane : London, 2006.
• Θέματα: Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Κοινωνικές συνθήκες. > 1933-1945.; Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία > 1933-1945.

"Shortly before his death in 2004, Alistair Cooke's personal secretary discovered in his New York study what Cooke had long believed was a lost manuscript: an entirely unpublished and extraordinary account of his travels through America during the Second World War"--Jacket.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction to a war
• 2. A passport to the people
• 3. Through the Appalachians to the pioneers
• 4. Deep down South
• 5. The Gulf Coast
• 6. The Southwest
• 7. Westward the course of empire
• 8. The Pacific Northwest
• 9.The Great Plains
• 10. From wheat to steel
• 11. The rise and fall of New England
• 12. Epilogue: four months in 1945
• 13. Envoi.