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For over half a century Alistair Cooke has been reporting on and interpreting America to the rest of the world, both in print and on the air, bringing his unique blend of curiosity, wit, and perceptive analysis to bear on the sometimes glittering, often gritty, worlds of sports and entertainment. 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 - as well as other areas of entertainment: movies, jazz, and the theater. He takes us on a whirlwind tour of famous people, exotic places, and key sporting events. He has covered every president since Hoover, was a friend of Charlie Chaplin, admired Duke Ellington and George Gershwin above all other American composers, and was fascinated by Sugar Ray Robinson (who he firmly believes was the best fighter pound for pound in the history of the ring). In these pages we come engagingly close to Greta Garbo and Arnold Palmer, Groucho Marx and Bobby Jones, Fred MacMurray and Gabriela Sabatini, Gary Cooper and Max Cohe (who? you'll find out). He takes us memor

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Author

Alistair Cooke

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611456349

Category

nonfiction