Letter From America, 1946-2004 by Cooke, Alistair -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Editor’s Note The 1940s

The Immigrant Strain Damon Runyon’s America Roughing It Joe Louis Washington, DC The Fall of New England Letter to an Intending Immigrant

The 1950s

The Summer Bachelor It’s a Democracy, Isn’t It? The European’s America Getting Away from It All The Court and the Negro The Colonel of the Plains HLM: RIP The Road to Churchill Downs Politics and the Human Animal General Marshall

The 1960s

Beizbol Robert Frost The Father The Assassination LBJ Has the World Gone to Pot? John McLaren’s Folly The Well-Dressed American, Man! A Lonely Man Vietnam A Bad Night in Los Angeles Making a Home of a House Telling One Country about Another Pegler ‘Eternal Vigilance’ — by Whom?

The 1970s

The Letter from Long Island Give Thanks, for What? The Duke The End of the Affair I’m All Right, Jack No Cabinet Officers Need Apply Christmas in Vermont Mr Olmsted’s Park The Retiring Kind Two for the Road The Spy That Came Down in the Cold A Letter from Long Island The Presidential Ear

The 1980s

Bringing Up Baby Attempted Assassination of President Reagan The Fourth of July Old Man Reagan Inaugurals — On and Off Memories of 11 November Miss Much — No Regret Expert Witness The Drugs Blight Time to Retire Martin Luther King — the Black Washington Fred Astaire Origins of American Slang Mayor Koch at Work Hurricanes Chaplin — the Last Word San Francisco Earthquake

The 1990s

Presidential Ghosts The End of the Eighties — Great or Greedy? Fighting in What? Riots in Los Angeles White House Style The Irish in New York City ‘Give me your tired, your poor . . .’ Thirtieth Anniversary of Kennedy Assassination Boston Trick or Treat Fiftieth Anniversary of VE Day O.J. — the Verdict The Old Rocking Chair Silver Watergate The End of Civilization The Kennedy Missile Tapes The Evolution of the Grand Jury The President Will Address the Nation New Words for Objects New and Old Loneliness, Male Companionship and the Hunt Park Avenue’s Colourful Christmas

2000—2004

The Death of the Old Media Running Mates and Carpetbaggers The Day of Judgement The Origin of the Continental Blow-out America’s Day of Terror America on Standby The Stars and Stripes Messiah at Christmas Ringing the Changes Arise, Sir Rudolph The Day the Money Stopped Memory of a True Great The Last of the Old-Time Gangsters Farewell to San Francisco Remembering a Dear Friend Meeting the Stars The Pledge of Allegiance Towering Glass and Steel Charlie Addams The Democrats’ Growing Confidence

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