The greatest generation / Tom Brokaw.

By: Brokaw, TomMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, c1998Edition: 1st edDescription: xxx, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0375502025; 9780375502026Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, AmericanDDC classification: 940.54/8173 LOC classification: D811.A2 | B746 1998b
Contents:
Thomas and Eileen Broderick -- Charles O. Van Gorder -- 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 -- Charles Briscoe -- Dorothy Haener -- Heroes -- Bob Bush -- Joe Foss -- Leonard "Bud" Lomell -- 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 -- Martha Settle Putney -- Johnnie Holmes -- Luis Armijo -- Nao Takasugi -- Norman Mineta -- John and Peggy Assenzio -- Dumbos -- Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson -- Jeanette Gagne Norton -- Daphne Cavin -- George Bush -- Ben Bradlee -- Art Buchwald -- Andy Rooney -- Julia Child -- Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion -- Chesterfield Smith -- Al Neuharth -- Maurice "Hank" Greenberg -- Mark Hatfield -- Robert Dole -- Daniel Inouye -- Caspar Weinberger -- Lloyd Cutler -- George Shultz -- Arthur Schlesinger -- Ed Guthman -- Twilight of their lives.
Summary: Presents personal narratives from the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.
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Thomas and Eileen Broderick -- Charles O. Van Gorder -- 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 -- Charles Briscoe -- Dorothy Haener -- Heroes -- Bob Bush -- Joe Foss -- Leonard "Bud" Lomell -- 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 -- Martha Settle Putney -- Johnnie Holmes -- Luis Armijo -- Nao Takasugi -- Norman Mineta -- John and Peggy Assenzio -- Dumbos -- Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson -- Jeanette Gagne Norton -- Daphne Cavin -- George Bush -- Ben Bradlee -- Art Buchwald -- Andy Rooney -- Julia Child -- Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion -- Chesterfield Smith -- Al Neuharth -- Maurice "Hank" Greenberg -- Mark Hatfield -- Robert Dole -- Daniel Inouye -- Caspar Weinberger -- Lloyd Cutler -- George Shultz -- Arthur Schlesinger -- Ed Guthman -- Twilight of their lives.

Presents personal narratives from the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.

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