Book Reviews: American Journey; Trains and Buttered Toast: Lords of Their Own Domain

The ScotsmanJuly 05, 2006

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American Journey By Alistair Cooke Penguin/Allen Lane, 325pp, GBP 20

Trains and Buttered Toast by John Betjeman John Murray, 353pp, GBP 14.99

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Book Reviews: American Journey; Trains and Buttered Toast: Lords of Their Own Domain

ALISTAIR COOKE WAS A newspaperman, John Betjeman a poet, but it was the broadcast media that made them famous and two of the most admired or best-loved men of their time. Cooke's medium being radio, not television, his voice was known to millions who listened devotedly to his Letter from America, but who m...

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