Writes Rob Stove: "Like Chris Dominguez, I mourn Alistair Cooke's passing.
"Politically he was further to the left than LRC would have liked. His book about Alger Hiss is, by all accounts, far too lenient towards that creep. But he always comported himself like a gentleman, for the simple and sufficient reason that - as everyone who ever met him says - he was a gentleman.
"Incidentally he was already plying his journalistic trade during the career zenith of Huey Long, whom he interviewed. He always remembered - as who would not? - the spectacle of Long in his New Orleans hotel room, 'pick[ing] his toes as he enlarged on the glorious future he had in mind for Everyman and Everywoman in Louisiana.' (Cooke, THE AMERICANS, London, 1980, p. 15).
"Vale."
