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Mar 6, 2007 · ―Frank Senso, former CNN Washington bureau chief While the Greatest Generation deserves our praise for surviving the Depression and fighting in World War II, the Baby Boomers, this book argues, are in many ways as great a generation―if not greater―for how they have advanced equality and freedom at home. It's fashionable to mock Boomers as ...
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Nov 9, 2010 · The Greatest Generation. With all due respect to Tom Brokaw, he didn’t get it quite right about the “Greatest Generation.” In his book The Greatest Generation, Brokaw extols the virtues and influence of well-known Americans in the defense, development, and recovery of the United States in the. Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2 min read By:
Mar 31, 2024 · By the early 2000s, six decades after they helped save the world, over 1,000 World War II Veterans were now dying each day in the United States. As the Greatest Generation slowly faded away, Trevor McIntyre was horrified to see eBay flooded with their militaria from the war after they died.
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May 11, 2004 · The Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw. Random House Publishing Group, May 11, 2004 - History - 464 pages. The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years. In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people ...
Dec 7, 1998 · Spiral-bound. $14.81. Audio CD. $5.66 19 Used from $1.68 3 New from $13.95. 3 CDs / 4 hours. Read by the Author, Tom Brokaw. Also available on cassette. In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell - through the stories of individual men and women - the story of a generation, American's citizen heroes and heroines who came ...
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Book Details. About Tom Brokaw. Tom Brokaw is the author of seven bestsellers: The Greatest Generation, The Greatest Generation Speaks, An Album of Memories, Boom!, The Time of Our Lives, A Long Way from Home, and A Lucky Life Interrupted. A native of South Dakota, he graduated from the University of South Dakota, and began his journalism ...
Jan 26, 2018 · The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw’s fine book, tells an accurate story. His words: “These men and women came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played ...
