Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Reagan Years (1981-1988) - Reporting party conventions

The dramatic 1940 Republican Convention where outsider Wendell Wilkie beat the favourite, and the advantages to reporters of live television coverage of conventions.

Published on Friday, 20th July 1984.

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