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"A Note on Fame and Friendship" handler om ???
"1. Charles Chaplin - The One and Only" handler om ???
"2. Edward VIII - The Golden Boy" handler om ???
"3. H. L. Mencken - The Public and the Private Face" handler om ???
"4. Humphrey Bogart - Epitaph for a Tough Guy" handler om ???
"5. Adlai Stevenson - The Failed Saint" handler om ???
"6. Bertrand Russell - The Lord of Reason" handler om ???
Alfred Cooke - eller som han skiftede navn til - Alistair Cooke emigrerede til USA fra England i 1937 og skrev masser af artikler om USA set med en englænders øjne. Han blev ret gammel, 95 år, og blev ufrivilligt indblandet i en sag om ligrøveri efter sin død, for nogle tyveknægte fjernede knoglevæv fra hans og flere andres lig inden kremering. Knoglevævet blev solgt videre til brug i patienter, hvilket var en dum ide for Alistair døde af kræft og det havde spredt sig til knoglerne.
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Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the most Over the course of his sixty-year career as a broadcaster, television host, and newspaper reporter, Alistair Cooke met many remarkable people of the twentieth century. This entertaining and insightful collection shares his unique, often startling personal vision of six key figures from the worlds of literature, entertainment, and politics. They are: Charlie Chaplin, whom Cooke befriended in Hollywood and who courted controversy in his politics and romances; the charming-yet-naive Edward VIII, whose love affair changed the course of World War II; Humphrey Bogart, the first antihero hero onscreen and a sensitive gentleman at home; H. L. Mencken, brilliant, inspirational, and deeply flawed; Adlai Stevenson, whom Cooke labeled the failed saint; and Bertrand Russell, who had the courage and the audacity to try to make the world a better place. The subjects of Six Men are united by the deep complexities of their characters. In balancing informed details of their lives with an objectivity set against the ever-changing landscape of their times, Six Men is a master course in the art of concise biography.… (more)
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I like Cooke's sometimes pointed, sometimes meandering observations about both his adopted and his native country, and the indefensible ways humans often behave toward others, as well as toward themselves. His is an old fashioned style of writing. Sinking myself into his pages makes me nostalgic for it. Today's writing comes across as phony and too breathless for genuine thought in comparison.
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Omslagsfoto: Robert Golden
Omslaget viser et foto af Alistair Cooke
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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920.71/09/04 |