TY - BOOK AU - Cooke, Alistair, TI - The essential letters from America: the 1980s SN - 9781408400777 U1 - TB 791.447 PY - 2009/// CY - Bath [England] PB - BBC Audiobooks KW - Audiobooks N1 - Compact discs N2 - A selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. In this selection of the very first letters, Cooke reports on a memorable range of events, including the threat to the United States during World War II, the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the shocking occasion when a bomber hit the Empire State Building and the presidential election of 1948 ER -