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The Greatest Generation »

Authors: Tom Brokaw
ISBN-13: 9780812975291, ISBN-10: 0812975294
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Tom Brokaw

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 lives in New York and Montana.

Book Synopsis

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 of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to bud modern America.

Biography Magazine - Marjorie Rosen

...The Greatest Generation gives heroism a human face....it moved at least one reader (this one!) to tears. At least twice.

	Acknowledgments
	Generations
	The Time of their Lives	3
	Ordinary People
	Thomas and Eileen Broderick: Insurance Agency Owner	17
	Charles O. Van Gorder, MD: Surgeon	25
	Wesley Ko: Printing Business	37
	James and Dorothy Dowling: Highway Superintendent	45
	Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond: Anglican Priest	55
	Lloyd Kilmer: County Clerk and Real Estate Executive	61
	Gordon Larsen: Powerhouse Operator	69
	John "Lefty" Caulfield: School Principal	77
	Home Front
	Charles Briscoe: Boeing Engineer	89
	Dorothy Haener: UAW Organizer	96
	Heroes
	Bob Bush: Lumber and Building Supply Business	105
	Joe Foss: U.S. Marine Corps Pilot	115
	Leonard "Bud" Lomell: Lawyer	125
	Women in Uniform and Out
	Mary Hallaren: Colonel, U.S. Army, Women's Auxiliary Corps	139
	Jeanne Holm: General, U.S. Air Force	139
	Marion Rivers Nittel	151
	Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach: Teacher/Real Estate Agent	151
	Alison Ely Campbell	151
	Margaret Ray Ringenberg: Women's Air Force Service Pilot	163
	Mary Louise Roberts Wilson: U.S. Army Nurse Corps	173
	Shame
	Martha Settle Putney: History Professor	185
	Johnnie Holmes: Real Estate Investor	193
	Luis Armijo: Schoolteacher	203
	Nao Takasugi: California State Assemblyman	215
	Norman Mineta: California Congressman	215
	Love, Marriage, Commitment
	John and Peggy Assenzio: Salesman/Teacher	233
	The Dumbos	241
	Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson: Governor and Senator	249
	Jeanette Gagne Norton	257
	Daphne Cavin	257
	Famous People
	George Bush: President of the United States	273
	Ben Bradlee: Journalist	281
	Art Buchwald: Writer	287
	Andy Rooney: Journalist	293
	Julia Child: Chef	299
	Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion: Chemist	303
	Chesterfield Smith: Attorney, President of the American Bar Association	307
	Al Neuharth: Founder, USA Today	319
	Maurice "Hank" Greenberg: CEO, American International Group	319
	The Arena
	Mark Hatfield: U.S. Senator	333
	Robert Dole: U.S. Senator, Presidential Candidate	341
	Daniel Inouye: U.S. Senator	349
	Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense	357
	Lloyd Cutler: Counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton	365
	George Shultz: Cabinet Member	369
	Arthur Schlesinger: Historian	369
	Ed Guthman: Journalist, Press Secretary to Robert F. Kennedy	377
	The Twilight of their Lives	381