| IN THE SPRING OF 1977, Yale University gave Cooke its rarely awarded Howland Medal.Presenting the award, Yale s president (nowAmbassador to Great Britain), Kingman Brew-stcr, said: "Alistair Cooke s subtle and percep-tive view of America has helped to determine bow the rest of the English-speaking world understands the American element in their des- tiny. From the time he left Yale in the ~ 93os he has been the most authoritative interpreter of the American scene and American mores a man who has approached the unfolding history of his adopted country with wit, style, reason and a refreshing idealism." In this major new book, his first since Alistair Cooke s America, Cooke brings the same quali- ties to bear on six famous transatlantic figures- three of them English, three American-each of whom has a legendary meaning for our time, and a special meaning for Alistair Cooke. We will know them better from having seen them through his eyes. And there is a seventh man, no less engaging than the rest, whom Six Men gives us a chance of knowing much better, too: Alistair Cooke himself. |
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