Six Men

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During his broadcasting career, Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures in journalism, politics, public life, sport, and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him. Here are candid portraits of the lovable yet unreliable Charlie Chaplin, who mysteriously vanished on the day he was asked to be Cooke's best man; the complex and private man behind Humphrey Bogart's tough guy image; and the charming yet childlike 'golden boy' Edward VIII. Cooke also recalls his friend and mentor, the flawed contrarian and satirist H.L. Mencken, the larger-than-life liberal politician Adlai Stevenson, and the heroic social reformer Bertrand Russell. Each superbly realized portrait gives us an insight into a golden age of 'great men' and is a masterpiece of observation, warmth, and humour.