Title

The greatest generation

Description

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.

Identifier

768856

375502025

Creator

Brokaw, Tom

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1998

Program air date: March 7, 1999

Publisher

Random House

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front flysheet and half -title. Details on Brokaw's father. Lamb lists vignettes from the book and page numbers, details on the subjects. Lamb marks, underlines and tabulates information from the Contents pages. Tom Boderick, shot thru the head. Lamb underlines/notes details on service, wounds, POW experiences, post-war life, wives, and children. Comments on today's kids, religion, Red Brokaw, Medal of Honor, divorce uncommon, letters, email.

Subject

"World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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