Fun & Games With Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements - Softcover

Cooke, Alistair

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9781559703277: Fun & Games With Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

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ISBN 10: 155970327X ISBN 13: 9781559703277

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 1996

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Cooke shares his views on sports and entertainment from the Kentucky Derby to Wimbeldon, Jack Nicklaus to George Gershwin, and Bobby Jones to Charlie Chaplin

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About the Author:

Alistair Cooke was a journalist born in Lancashire, England, on November 20, 1908. For over fifty years, he presented Letters from America, which was the longest-running radio series in the world. Cooke lived in New York City until his death on March 30, 2004.

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Cooke, retired host of Masterpiece Theater, has compiled 49 of his short pieces, mostly written for the Manchester Guardian between 1940 and 1994, that cover the gamut from cricket to baseball. Boxing is given prime space, with two profiles of Sugar Ray Robinson, in his prime ("An Epic of Courage") and in his decline ("Sugar Ray's Downfall"); and two of Muhammad Ali, in victory ("A Mountain Comes to Muhammad") and defeat ("Come-Uppance for the 'Onliest Champion'"). There are essays on tennis ("The Money Game" and "My Life with Gabriela Sabatini") and the Kentucky Derby ("The Road to Churchill Downs"). Nineteen selections are reserved for golf, its heroes, tribulations and vicissitudes. Best, however, are the portraits that have hardly anything to do with sport. There are wonderful profiles-of Frenchman Eric Tabarly, who in 1964 sailed solo across the Atlantic in 27 days, one hour and 56 minutes to break Chichester's 1962 record; and of nightclub owner Max Cohen ("Oasis in Baltimore," 1940). Cooke's obituaries for Gary Cooper, Duke Ellington and Charlie Chaplin are touching and informative. A mixed bag.
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