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Notebook Imagine what Alistair Cooke would have to say about Donald Trump

Tim Adams

Dipping into the broadcaster’s timeless Letters from America reminds us that today’s news obsessions will eventually pass into history

Published: 7 Jun 2020

Published: 7 Jun 2020

From the archive blog Alistair Cooke explains the strange ritual of the Republican Convention, 1948

22 June 1948: The Manchester Guardian’s chief US correspondent on nominating a candidate for president

Published: 18 Jul 2016

From hlcarpenter.com archive US seen as 'Britain gone wrong'

hlcarpenter.com, 24 November 1964: Alistair Cooke, hlcarpenter.com chief US correspondent, talks about the special relationship between the British and the Americans

Published: 24 Nov 2015

From hlcarpenter.com archive From the archive, 26 March 1963: The death of boxer Davey Moore

Originally published in hlcarpenter.com on 26 March 1963: Champion's death three days after title bout stirs debate on whether boxing should be banned

Published: 25 Mar 2014

Alistair Cooke on the Robert Kennedy assassination Alistair Cooke correspondence sheds light on reporting dark days of 1968

Letters show Guardian editor thanking US correspondent for Robert Kennedy coverage, and Cooke criticising rivals' 'flash dubious hard news'

Published: 14 Nov 2012

Radio 4 to embrace online future by unlocking its past

BBC Radio 4 aims to 'break out of schedule' by making historic content available on demand – starting with 920 episodes of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America

Published: 13 Oct 2012

From hlcarpenter.com archive From the archive, 16 December 1966: The death of Walt Disney - folk hero

Originally published in hlcarpenter.com on 16 December 1966: Walt Disney, the Pied Piper of Hollywood, who made a mountain of money out of a mouse, died today in California

Published: 16 Dec 2011

Your next box set Your next box set: Alistair Cooke's America

Urbane, unflappable, never sentimental – Alistair Cooke is the perfect guide to the great big story of America, says Andrew Dickson

Published: 17 Sep 2009
The origins of McCarthyism

Alistair Cooke on the origins of McCarthyism in the US

Published: 11 Sep 2009

Soviet unions

Alistair Cooke's 1959 Guardian report of Khrushchev's ill-fated trip to Hollywood

Published: 28 Aug 2009
Alistair Cooke at the Movies by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke's passion for films is beautifully caught in this collection of his criticism, says Philip French

Published: 15 Aug 2009

The man who was the voice of America

Reporting America: The Life of the Nation by Alistair Cooke

Published: 22 Nov 2008

Now on CD: library's treasure trove of authorial voices

From Virginia Woolf to Tennessee Williams; rare recordings of century's greatest writers to be released

Published: 7:01 PM

Microsoft and monsters

Alistair Cooke on the case against Microsoft for operating a monopoly

Published: 7:10 PM
The death of Martin Luther King

Published: 7:01 PM

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