Six Men.
Cooke, Alistair.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Date Published: 1977.
Description: 205 pages. This stated FIRST EDITION is in good to very good condition. Front and back cloth cover is in very good conditon. Dust jacket in good condition with some spllitting to top and bottom of spine and cover edges. In addition an inch size piece is torn out on the lower right front cover. 6 black and white photos. This book is a must for the Duke of Windsor or other collector. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.....and other curious people. Dust jacket reads: IN THE SPRING OF 1977, Yale University gave Cooke its rarely awarded Howland Medal. Presenting the award, Yale's president (now Ambassador to Great Britain), Kingman Brewster, said: "Alistair Cooke's subtle and perceptive view of America has helped to determine how the rest of the English-speaking world understands the American element in their destiny. From the time he left Yale in the 1930's he has been the most authoritative interpreter of the American scene and American mores.... a man who has approached the unfolding history of his adopted country with wit, style, reason and a refreshing idealism." In this major new book, his first since Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke brings the same qualities to bear on six famous transatlantic figures-three of them English, three American-each of whom has a legendary meaning for our time, and a special meaning for Alistair Cooke. We will know them better from having seen them through his eyes. And there is a seventh man, no less engaging than the rest, whom Six Men gives us a chance of knowing much better, too: Alistair Cooke himself. CHARLES CHAPLIN "Neither in love nor in friendship did he ever tread water. He regularly took a header into deep water, and the splash usually shocked his envious neighbors." EDWARD VIII "The most damning epitaph you can compose about Edward -as a Prince, as a King, as a man-is one that all comfortable people should cower from deserving: he was at his best only when the going was good." H.L. MENCKEN "It is true that he disliked puritans, teetotalers, Communists, Englishmen, Methodists, and politicians on principle. But if one presented himself who was otherwise a rational and agreeable man, he spontaneously filed and forgot his prejudice." ADLAI STEVENSON "He remains the liveliest reminder for our time that there are admirable reasons for failing to be President." BERTRAND RUSSELL "Sometime, somewhere, Russell sweated to believe, the rational man would make a decent world of his instincts. This is, of course, not a new conviction.... But... Russell gave the struggle to make it come true the dimensions of a Greek tragedy." HUMPHREY BOGART "Many first acquaintances were dropped at once when, out of shyness probably, they tried to adopt some of the Bogart bluster in the hope of showing right away that they were his sort. One of his own sort was enough for him." --------
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ
ISBN: 0394484347
Book Id: 839
Price: $9.00
