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Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow
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In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America’s premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together in this “virtual reunion” as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individuals and the national mood were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessons that might guide us in the years ahead. Race, politics, war, feminism, popular culture, and music are all delved into here. Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship , as we hear stories of how this formative decade has shaped our perspectives on business, the environment, politics, family, and our national existence. Remarkable in its insights, wonderfully written and reported, this revealing book lets us join in these frank conversations about America then, now, and tomorrow.
Bonus DVD: Excerpt From 1968 with Tom Brokaw, A History Channel special
Praise for Boom!
“Tom Brokaw does an excellent job of capturing an exciting, controversial period in American history and Boom! is a worthy addition to his growing canon.”–New York Post
“[Tom Brokaw] approaches this magnum opus with warmth, curiosity and conviction, the same attributes that worked so well for his Greatest Generation.”
–The New York Times
“[A] verbal scrapbook of the Sixties . . . [Boom! shows] that the era’s core issues–racism, women’s rights, a nation-dividing war–remain central today, and that the values boomers championed haven’t yet gone bust.”
–People (four stars)
“Packed with memorable people, places, events . . . A ‘virtual reunion’ of 1960s folks telling what they did back then, where they’ve been since and how they assess that tumultuous decade.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Genuinely fascinating recollections . . . plenty of memorable anecdotes.”
–The Wall Street Journal
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9780812975116
ISBN: 0812975111
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-10-14
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• The Greatest Generation
• A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties
• The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
• An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
• 1968 with Tom Brokaw (History Channel)
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
It's a 688 page tome, opus & a statement about a generation. -
I'd read some, set it aside, read some etc. Not exactly a page turner. But over all accessible
& I got through it & it's pretty good. Tom Brokaw was not a participant, merely an observer with a very good job at NBC news. The years are the 60's, roughly defined from JFK's assassination in 63 to Nixon resignation in 74. The story is largely told though the lives of many participants, "Boomers", who talked to Mr. Brokaw about those times. They're famous, infamous, ordinary & extraordinary & have lots of stories.
Overlying this period of course, is the war. The galvanizing event that defined everything. Every generation has defining events. The greatest generation had the one-two punch of the great depression & of course World War II. The silent generation had an overlay of the cold war & civil rights. Our generation had had the Vietnam War & Watergate. Not as sexy as world war & massive depression but every bit as significant.
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Brokaw misses the whole point! -
Boom! is completely worthless. Brokaw has no idea of what was really happening in America in the sixties. He just looked down on it from the disconnected perspective of his own sheltered journalistic world. He was not one of us; he was one of them. For a more authentic look at the era from someone who actually lived *in* it rather than *above* it, try Die at the Right Time! A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties.
If you want to hear from the "winners" and not the "whiners"... -
Then this is your book. Want to hear from those who actually fought in Vietnam - great! Vietnam war heroes (Chuck Hagel, Jim Webb) are allowed to give their views. But I would never count them as ever wanting to win the war. This is really not a review. I bought the book more than a year ago and still have not finished. I was in Vietnam for three tours. After that I supervised the DoD database ov Vietnam casualties and personally cataloged all the autopsy pictures. The reality of the war keeps slowing my completion of the platitudes of the war.
Perhaps in a few years I will come back and give you a review.
But if you were on the winning side, you will love this book. Otherwise - read it anyway. We all have to learn.
I am A "Boomer" -
"Boom" the book
I am enjoying reading the book about the 60s. The process of ordering and receiving was easy. The book came in and I was excited to start the reading. Thank you Amazon
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Boring, biased, biographical sketches -
It was a real effort to get through this book. Tom's liberal bias shows through loud and clear. The short biographical sketches of people he deems influential during the 60's (like Warren Beatty, Nora Ephron and Tommy Smothers???) are disjointed and there is no real central theme. Save your money!!
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