Memories of the great & the good / Alistair Cooke.

Author/creator Cooke, Alistair
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Arcade Publishing, ©1999.
Descriptionxiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents George Bernard Shaw -- John Nance Garner: the frontiersman -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Wodehouse at eighty -- FDR -- Maker of a president: Eleanor Roosevelt -- General Marshall -- Dean Acheson -- Eisenhower at Gettysburg -- Harold Ross -- The legend of Gary Cooper -- Robert Frost -- Goldwater: Jefferson in the desert -- Chichester: the master mariner -- Reagan: the common man writ large -- The Duke -- Aiken of Vermont -- Barbara McClintock: the gene on the cob -- George Abbott -- Scotty Reston: the maestro from Glasgow -- Erma Bombeck: a rare bird -- The last Victorian [Winston Churchill] -- The gentleman from Georgia [Robert Jones, Jr.]
LCCN 99073774
ISBN1559704799

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks CT120 .C668 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold