{"product_id":"9781497697799","title":"Memories of the Great \u0026 the Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed, or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century and in this collection profiles the twenty-three he considered the most remarkable\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In his career of more than fifty years broadcasting the BBC radio program \u003ci\u003eLetter from America\u003c\/i\u003e and as the US correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003efor more than twenty-five years, Alistair Cooke met and mixed with many famous people. In \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Great \u0026amp; the Good \u003c\/i\u003ehe shares his portraits of the men and women that he felt made the world a better, more stimulating place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We read about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s maintenance of his public image by means of a gentleman’s agreement with the press and Lyndon Johnson’s masterful backroom dealings. “Eisenhower at Gettysburg” reveals a conversation between Cooke and the president, touching on everything from their mutual love of golf to what it was like to grow up in a small Kansas farming town at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Literary figures including P. G. Wodehouse, Erma Bombeck, and George Bernard Shaw are succinctly sketched. And, in the final pair of essays, Cooke pays moving tribute to two of the men he admired the most: Winston Churchill and golfing legend Bobby Jones.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167576703216,"sku":"9781497697799","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497697799_p0.jpg?v=1769896194","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497697799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}