A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is âan unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsuleâ (The Washington Post).  In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in a closet in his New York apartment. It was a travelogue of America during the early days of World War II that had sat there for sixty years.  Published to stellar reviews, Cookeâs The American Home Front is a âvalentine to his adopted country by someone who loved it as well as anyone and knew it better than mostâ (The Plain Dealer). A portrait frozen in time, the book offers a charming look at the era as it journeys through small towns, big cities, and the American landscape as they once were. The American Home Front is also a brilliant piece of reportage, a historical gem that âaffirms Cookeâs enduring place as a great twentieth-century reporterâ (American Heritage).  âAn interesting eyewitness record . . . It recalls transcontinental travel in the pre-interstate highway era, and with greater depth, social problems that Cooke detected beneath the win-the-war exhortations he encountered from coast to coast.â âBooklist
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