- Summary
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Brokaw, Tom.
- Published
- New York : Random House, [1998]
©1998
- Locale
- United States
USA
- Contents
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Generations
Time of their lives
Ordinary people
Thomas and Eileen Broderick
Charles O. Van Gorder, MD
Wesley Ko
James and Dorothy Dowling
Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond
Lloyd Kilmer
Gordon Larsen
Romeo club: retired old men eating out
John "Lefty" Caulfield
Home front
Charles Briscoe
Dorothy Haener
Heroes
Bob Bush
Joe Foss
Leonard "Bud" Lomell
Women in uniform and out
Colonel Mary Hallaren
General Jeanne Holm
Three women and how they served
Marion Rivers Nittel
Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach
Alison Ely Campbell
Margaret Ray Ringenberg
Mary Louise Roberts Wilson
Shame
Martha Settle Putney
Johnnie Holmes
Luis Armijo
Nao Takasugi
Norman Mineta
Love, marriage, and commitment
John and Peggy Assenzio
Dumbos
Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson
Jeanette Gagne Norton
Daphne Cavin
Famous people
George Bush
Ben Bradlee
Art Buchwald
Andy Rooney
Julia Child
Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion
Chesterfield Smith
Al Neuharth
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg
Arena
Mark Hatfield
Robert Dole
Daniel Inouye
Caspar Weinberger
Lloyd Cutler
George Shultz
Arthur Schlesinger
Ed Guthman
Twilight of their lives.
- Notes
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Includes index.
Generations -- Time of their lives -- Ordinary people -- Thomas and Eileen Broderick -- Charles O. Van Gorder, MD -- Wesley Ko -- James and Dorothy Dowling -- Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond -- Lloyd Kilmer -- Gordon Larsen -- Romeo club: retired old men eating out -- John "Lefty" Caulfield -- Home front -- Charles Briscoe -- Dorothy Haener -- Heroes -- Bob Bush -- Joe Foss -- Leonard "Bud" Lomell -- Women in uniform and out -- Colonel Mary Hallaren -- General Jeanne Holm -- Three women and how they served -- Marion Rivers Nittel -- Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach -- Alison Ely Campbell -- Margaret Ray Ringenberg -- Mary Louise Roberts Wilson -- Shame -- Martha Settle Putney -- Johnnie Holmes -- Luis Armijo -- Nao Takasugi -- Norman Mineta -- Love, marriage, and commitment -- John and Peggy Assenzio -- Dumbos -- Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson -- Jeanette Gagne Norton -- Daphne Cavin -- Famous people -- George Bush -- Ben Bradlee -- Art Buchwald -- Andy Rooney -- Julia Child -- Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion -- Chesterfield Smith -- Al Neuharth -- Maurice "Hank" Greenberg -- Arena -- Mark Hatfield -- Robert Dole -- Daniel Inouye -- Caspar Weinberger -- Lloyd Cutler -- George Shultz -- Arthur Schlesinger -- Ed Guthman -- Twilight of their lives.
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