Alistair Cooke's America

Alistair Cooke's America is a 13-part television series about the United States and its history, written and presented by Alistair Cooke and first broadcast in both Britain (by the BBC) and the US in 1973.

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Alistair Cooke - BBC - 1973

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It was followed by a book of the same title.

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It was a great success in both countries, and resulted in Cooke being invited to address the joint Houses of the United States Congress as part of Congress's bicentennial celebrations. Alistair Cooke said that, of all his work, Alistair Cooke's America was what he was most proud of; it is the result and expression of his long love of America. (Cooke was once asked how long it took him to make the series. "I do not want to be coy," he replied, "but it took 40 years.")

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