cover image America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s

America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s

Alistair Cooke. Collier Books, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-02-031151-5

Of this collection of 55 pieces, PW remarked that ``none seems outdated,'' commending Cooke as ``a judicious journalist, decent, disinterested, yet ever curious, a courier of news about our country who writes graceful prose and who causes us to observe ourselves afresh.'' (Nov.)