Author: COOKE, ALISTAIR.
Title: The Patient Has the Floor.
Description: London: The Bodley Head, 1986. 0370301641. 1st edition. In 1965, Alistair Cooke was invited to deliver the annual Convocation Address of the Mayo Clinic. He chose to speak about medicine from a layman's point of view. This led to other lecture invitations - including to the US House of Representatives(on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the meeting of the first Continental -i.e revolutionary - Congress. This is a collection of these lectures as essays. Pp.205, author's signature to 'The Good Book Guide' label pasted to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages. Blue cloth, b/w portrait illustrated dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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