Alistair Cooke's REPORTING AMERICA the Editor's Choice in Buffalo News

Jeff Simon, book editor of The Buffalo News, made Alistair Cooke's Reporting America his "Editor's Choice" this week: "This beautifully illustrated book collects 89 letters, from first to last, whereby the soul of urbanity and intelligence tackles a world of American subjects, from the not-so-quotidian to the not-so-apocalyptic. You’ll find Cooke on everything from Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Gary Cooper and Marilyn Monroe to Chappaquiddick, Watergate, the assassinations of JFK and John Lennon and 9/11. . . Here is one steady brilliant voice to echo, if not emulate, in the era of cable- TV’s 24-hour News Babel."

Remembering ALISTAIR COOKE

Today is Alistair Cooke's 100th birthday! Joining The Overlook Press in New York tonight will be Susan Cooke Kittredge and John Byrne Cooke, for a special birthday reception hosted by Peter Mayer and Rebecca Eaton, Executive Producer of Masterpiece on PBS. Reporting America is a magnificent new book containing Cooke's dispatches, almost all of them uncollected, on the key moments, movements and men and women of post-war America. On sale today! And stay tuned for a full party report and pics.