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Brokaw, Tom

Overview
Works: 401 works in 667 publications in 6 languages and 48,191 library holdings
Roles: Narrator, Host, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Reporter, Author of screenplay, Correspondent, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Speaker, Moderator
Classifications: d811.a2, 940.548173
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55 editions published between and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 5,065 libraries worldwide
In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values - duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
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23 editions published between and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,242 libraries worldwide
Collects letters sent to the author in response to "The Greatest Generation," his tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War II and came home to build a new America during the post-war era.
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14 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 2,772 libraries worldwide
Celebrates the "greatest generation" of Americans, from the Great Depression to the Bataan Death March and beyond, in a series of biographical profiles that chronicle the experiences of ordinary Americans who became caught up in historic twentieth-century events.
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31 editions published between and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,759 libraries worldwide
In his memoir, Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience, from his parents' life in the thirties to his early journalism career in the tumultuous sixties to the present day. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents' life in theThirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom's mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers' project building the Ft. Randall dam along the Missouri River. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle class pleasures and good educations for their children. "Along the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood," Brokaw writes; and as he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded--from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond--he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.
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18 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 2,739 libraries worldwide
Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
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19 editions published between and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 848 libraries worldwide
A tribute to the Americans who made great sacrifices during World War II, told through a collection of stories, interviews, and personal histories.
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10 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 791 libraries worldwide
Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 569 libraries worldwide
Chronologically documents news coverage of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks with first-person stories from over one hundred reporters and photographers.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 497 libraries worldwide
Presents color reproductions of paintings and drawings by artists N.C. Wyeth and his grandson James Wyeth which highlight the changing attitudes toward patriotism in America over the course of the twentieth century; and includes essays that provide information about the lives of the artists and their work.
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8 editions published between and 2002 in English and held by 466 libraries worldwide
Members of the Greatest Generation describe their war--in such historic episodes as the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki--as well as their lives on the home front.
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9 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 405 libraries worldwide
A collection of memories and reflections. Tom Brokow speaks of growing up in the American heartland and of the people, the culture, and the values that have shaped his life. He describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota from 1940 to 1960 and his parents' early lives during the twenties and thirties. He also reflects on the American experience, as he has lived and observed it, during the central decades of the twentieth century.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 262 libraries worldwide
An illustrative journey through Gerald Ford's years in office documents the day-to-day political and private life of the President and his family.
 
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The greatest generation speaks : letters and reflections
Alternative Names
Brokaw, Thomas John.
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