{"product_id":"alcoamr1","title":"Alistair Cooke's America - Deluxe 4-Disc set! - New lower price","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlistair Cooke's America\u003c\/strong\u003e - DVD (Region 1 - playable in North America: The US, Canada, US Territories, etc.) \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4-Disc Set.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlistair Cooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic documentary series first broadcast in 1972-3. Over 13 leisurely hours, Alistair Cooke narrates a \"personal history\" of his adopted country, beginning with his own arrival as a fresh young Cambridge graduate in the 1930s before taking us back to the very foundations of America, its colonization, the war of Independence (told in an admirably non-partisan way) and so on through momentous and turbulent decades right up to the early 1970s, where Civil Rights and protest movements are high on the agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Cooke interweaves anecdotes and digressions into the main narrative, charming the viewer with his storytelling precisely in the manner so beloved of listeners to his admirable \u003ci\u003eLetter from America\u003c\/i\u003e. By the end he has a warning that, although delivered in 1973, remains as telling today as it did then: America, like Ancient Rome as depicted by Gibbon in his \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, stands poised between its remarkable vitality and its equally remarkable capacity for decadence. Whether, like Rome, the USA becomes a victim of its own internal divisions or somehow manages to pull back from the brink still remains to be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wonderful addition to any DVD library - excellent!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45929805185077,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0035\/4058\/2467\/files\/alistair.jpg?v=1787778393","url":"https:\/\/giddyupvideo.com\/products\/alcoamr1","provider":"Giddy Up Video","version":"1.0","type":"link"}