Alistair Cooke's America

Alistair Cooke's America
  • Started airing: November 1972
  • Episodes: 14 (Avg. 14 per season)
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  • Popularity rank: # Unknown
  • Ended

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Season 1

1x1: The First Impact
Alistair Cooke looks at the first impressions he had of America when he first arrived in 1932.
Air date November 12th, 1972
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1x2: The New Found Land
This edition looks at the French and Spanish explorers who fist came to America and retraces the epic journeys of Coronado in 1540.
Air date November 19th, 1972
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1x3: Home From Home
This edition looks at the two types of British colinists, the merchants who arrived in Virginia and in the South and the Puritans who setttled in New England, and the role of... read more »
Air date November 26th, 1972
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1x4: Making a Revolution
This edition looks at the American revolution of 1776.
Air date December 3rd, 1972
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1x5: Inventing a Nation
This edition looks at the creation of the Constitution and the role of Thomas Jefferson and also at the grass-roots groups that changed the plans of the Founding Fathers.
Air date December 10th, 1972
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1x6: Gone West
This edition looks at the West, from Daniel boone's cave in Kentucky to Gold Rush of 1840.
Air date December 17th, 1972
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1x7: A Firebell in the Night
This edition looks at the causes of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the plight of the African slaves.
Air date December 24th, 1972
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1x8: Domesticating A Wilderness
This edition looks at the end of the Wild West, which was precipitated by the the completion of the rail link in 1869, the invention of the wind pump and other factors.
Air date December 31st, 1972
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1x9: Money on the Land
This edition looks at America's natural resources, and how they were exploited by the likes of John D. Rockerfellr, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison.
Air date January 7th, 1973
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1x10: The Huddled Masses
This edition looks at European immigrants coming to America.
Air date January 14th, 1972
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1x11: The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
This edition looks at the 1920s, which saw America go from an era of unparalelled prosperity to the severest economic depression ever known.
Air date January 21st, 1972
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1x12: Arsenal
This episode looks at the impact that warfare and the military has had on the history of America.
Air date January 28th, 1973
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1x13: The More Abundant Life
To give Americans a "more abundant life" was the stated aim of FDR's `New Deal' in the 1930s. Alistair Cooke travels from New England to Hawaii to consider if this was... read more »
Air date February 4th, 1973
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