48 years ago this holiday season Alistair Cooke predicted the demise of America's Empire (see video below other AC stuff), and while it starts off as a bit of something for us to laugh at, his comment that this demise "will come from within" America itself is pretty downright chilling in its accuracy.
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I stumbled on Masterpiece Theatre: The Unseen Alistair Cooke, and I was shocked to find out not only that he had spent 58 YEARS doing a radio joint every week called Letter from America, but also he had a collection of journals of trips throughout America during the war, traipsing back and forth through "rural America" and getting people's reactions to the events of the day - a collection of writings largely unfound until shortly before his death in 2004 and since published as The American Home Front: 1941-1942.
Site on his Letters from America HERE.
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