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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The glossy style, which always sounded like it was written to be read outloud for a broadcast, made this book somewhat less appealing. Also, the breezing through of the individual stories was disappointing. A few chapters here and there contained nuggets of details that were a glimpse into the reality of their lives. Otherwise, it was a solidly tempered book that paints broad strokes, but leaves you desiring more details. The short chapters make it an easy book to read if you only have limited bits of time, or are often interrupted. (  ) doxtator | Mar 10, 2009 |  great book of history and honor (  ) joebart33 | Jan 14, 2009 | Tom Brokaw interviews a number of WWII veterans about their war experiences and how their lives were changed after they gt back to the states. The stories told are very interesting, as well as their perspectives on their lives and how the world has changed since that time. (  ) rorispaniel | Nov 3, 2008 | 3148. The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw (read Jan 16, 1999) This is a moving book, full of poignant vignettes about WW II veterans and what happened to them in the war and how they were affected by it. I was often deeply moved and enjoyed the book thoroughly. But it is not great writing--TV writing or Readers' Digest writing, I'd call it. That is not bad, it merely says it is not great literature. I have a very satisfied and good feeling about reading this book. The generation he talks of is just before mine, and has dominated my life and I agree it is the greatest. ( ) Schmerguls | Oct 7, 2008 | Holy crap, Tom Brokaw without the left-wing slant. A great book that tells how America came to it's current postion as the only superpower on the backs of the finest Americans. (  ) tmstimbert | Sep 6, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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After almost 15 years and hundreds of letters and interviews, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation, a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. However, this collection is more than a mere chronicle of a tumultuous time, it's history made personal by a cast of everyday people transformed by extraordinary circumstances: the first women to break the homemaker mold, minorities suffering countless indignities to boldly fight for their country, infantrymen who went on to become some of the most distinguished leaders in the world, small-town kids who became corporate magnates. From the reminiscences of George Bush and Julia Child to the astonishing heroism and moving love stories of everyday people, The Greatest Generation salutes those whose sacrifices changed the course of American history. --Rebekah Warren
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