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Chargement... Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Storypar Tom Brokaw
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This might be the shortest book on my reading list, but it certainly isn’t the least impactful. Tom Brokaw shares the history of his family, mainly in South Dakota, and by doing that, delves into much about the history of this country in that part of the country. His parents were hard working and passed their work ethic and honesty on to their three boys. Tom’s love for them and the locations he grew up in are evident. He was as typical an American boy as you’ll find anywhere. His final chapter, the epilogue, shows his frustration in where we’ve come especially the past few years. Tom says he never in a million years guessed that he would live to see a United States where our president attempted to over throw the government he had led for four years. The final few pages are optimistic, even in the face of that. That’s Tom Brokaw, and we’re lucky to have had him at NBC and still have him. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents, and others who settled in South Dakota and worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century. At the center of this story is Red Brokaw, Tom's father, who left school in the third grade. At the end of his life, Red surprised his family by recording his memories about the Brokaw ancestors who obtained land in South Dakota under the Lend-Lease plan and started a hotel called the Brokaw House. As a boy Red worked there, and then on construction jobs, developing a talent for machines. At a high school play, he fell in love with the girl playing the lead, Jean, whose father had lost the family farm during the Depression. They married, and struggled financially. Their son Tom was born in 1940, and two other sons followed. Red had a philosophy: Never give up. Never complain. After the war, Red got his big break. The Army Corps of Engineers began to build great projects, including dams across the Missouri River, magnificent structures like the Fort Randall and the Gavins Point dams. Red rose to become a Foreman on the dam project, and the Brokaws moved to towns created to house workers, where the family became part of a vibrant community life"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)978.3092History and Geography North America Western U.S. South DakotaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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