"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." -- Tom Brokaw

Hardcover: 412 pages
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1998
Genre: Nonfiction > History
ISBN-10: 0-375-50202-5
ISBN-13: 9780375502026
Condition: Excellent (images are of actual book with dust jacket)

|| BOOK'S SYNOPSIS || 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 WWII 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.

Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.

|| ABOUT THE AUTHOR || 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 and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC News during Watergate, and from 1976 to 1981 he anchored Today on NBC. He's been the sole anchor and 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, and several Emmys. He live in New York and Montana.

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