Greatest Generation

Name: Greatest Generation
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ISBN: 9780375705694

ISBN-10: 0375705694

ISBN-13: 9780375705694

Edition: 1998 (Large Type)

Authors: Tom Brokaw

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Read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Large Print. * All Random House Large Print Editions are published in 16-point type "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for… the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced." '160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160; In this superb 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. "At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated, anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because everyone else was doing it too.'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160; "This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American family portrait album of the greatest generation." '160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160;'160; In this book you'll

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Diversified Publishing
Publication date: 12/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Tom Brokaw, a native of South Dakota, graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He began his journalism career in Omaha & Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC News during Watergate, & from 1976 to 1981 he anchored Today on NBC. He's been the sole anchor & managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw since 1983. Brokaw has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including two DuPonts, a Peabody Award, & several Emmys. He is the author of the bestselling books "The Greatest Generation" & "The Greatest Generation Speaks". He lives in New York & Montana.



Acknowledgments


Generations


The Time of Their Lives


Ordinary People


Thomas and Eileen Broderick


Chicago, Illinois


Insurance Agency Owner


82nd Airborne


Charles O. Van Gorder, MD


Andrews, North Carolina


Surgeon


326th Medical Company, 101st Airborne


Wesley Ko


Falmouth, Massachusetts


Printing Business


325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne


James and Dorothy Dowling


Smithtown, New York


Highway Superintendent


Bombardier-Navigator, 8th Air Force


Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond


Ventura, California


Anglican Orthodox Priest


First Lieutenant, U.S. Army


Lloyd Kilmer


Omaha, Nebraska


County Clerk and Real Estate Executive


B-24 Pilot, 8th Air Force


Gordon Larsen


Orofino, Idaho


Powerhouse Operator


U.S. Marine Corps


The ROMEO Club--Retired Old Men Eating Out


John "Lefty" Caulfield


Cambridge, Massachusetts


School Principal


U.S. Navy


Home Front


Charles Briscoe


Wichita, Kansas


Boeing Engineer


Developed the B-29


Dorothy Haener


Detroit, Michigan


UAW Organizer


Heroes


Bob Bush


Raymond, Washington


Lumber and Building Supply Business


U.S. Navy Medical Corpsman


Congressional Medal of Honor Winner


Joe Foss


Scottsdale, Arizona


U.S. Marine Corps Pilot


Congressional Medal of Honor Winner


Leonard "Bud" Lomell


Toms River, New Jersey


Lawyer


U.S. Army, 2nd Ranger Battalion


Woman in Uniform and Out


Colonel Mary Hallaren


Arlington, Virginia


Colonel, U.S. Army, Women's Auxiliary Corps


General Jeanne Holm


Edgewater, Maryland


General, U.S. Air Force


Three Woman and How They Served


Marion Rivers Nittel


South Chatham, Massachusetts


Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach


Lawrence, Kansas


Teacher/Real Estate Agent


Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), Navy


Alison Ely Campbell


Los Altos, California


Margaret Ray Ringenberg


Hoagland, Indiana


Women's Air Force Service Pilot (WASPs), 2nd Ferrying Division


Mary Louise Roberts Wilson


Duncanville, Texas


U.S. Army Nurse Corps


Shame


Martha Settle Putney


Washington, D.C.


History Professor


Women's Auxiliary Corps


Johnnie Holmes


Chicago, Illinois


Real Estate Investor


761st Tank Battalion


Luis Armijo


Fullerton, California


Schoolteacher


Communication Specialist, 20th Air Force


Nao Takasugi


Oxnard, California


California State Assemblyman


Norman Mineta


Edgewater, Maryland


California Congressman


Love, Marriage, and Commitment


John and Peggy Assenzio


Westbury, New York


Salesman/Teacher


118th Combat Engineers


The Dumbos


Yankton, South Dakota


Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson


Kensington, Maryland


Governor and Senator


Captain, U.S. Army/Lieutenant, U.S. Army Nurse Corps


Jeanette Gagne Norton


Minneapolis, Minnesota


Daphne Cavin


Lebanon, Indiana


Famous People


George Bush


Houston, Texas


President of the United States


Navy Air Corps


Ben Bradlee


Washington, D.C.


Journalist


Lieutenant, U.S. Army


Art Buchwald


Washington D.C.


Writer


U.S. Marine Corps


Andy Rooney


New York, New York


Journalist


U.S. Army


Julia Child


Pasadena, California


Chef


Office of Strategic Services


Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion


Chapel Hill, North Carolina


Chemist


Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988


Chesterfield Smith


Miami, Florida


Attorney, President of the American Bar Association


U.S. Infantry, 94th Division


Al Neuharth


Cocoa Beach, Florida


Founder, USA Today


U.S. Infantry, 86th Division


Maurice "Hank" Greenberg


New York, New York


CEO, American International Group


U.S. Army, Signal Corps, Army Rangers


The Arena


Mark Hatfield


Portland, Oregon


U.S. Senator


U.S. Navy


Robert Dole


Russell, Kansas


U.S. Senator


Presidential Candidate


U.S. Army, 10th Mountain Division


Daniel Inouye


Honolulu, Hawaii


U.S. Senator


U.S. Army, 442nd Regimental Combat Team


Caspar Weinberger


San Francisco, California


Secretary of Defense


U.S. Army


Lloyd Cutler


Washington, D.C.


Counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton


U.S. Army, Combat Engineers


George Shultz


Palo Alto, California


Cabinet Member


U.S. Marines


Arthur Schlesinger


New York, New York


Historian


Office of War Information, Office of Strategic Services


Ed Guthman


Pacific Palisades, California


Journalist, Press Secretary to Robert F. Kennedy


Lieutenant, U.S. Infantry, 85th Division


The Twilight of Their Lives