Memories of the Great and the Good - Softcover

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.

Alistair Cooke hosted PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for twenty-two years and was known internationally for his weekly BBC broadcast "Letter from America." He died in 2004.