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Chargement... A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties (édition 2003)par 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. Read for the states reading challenge. Good biography of Brokaw's boyhood in the 40's and 50's, growing up in small town South Dakota. The town was so rural, there was no TV until they moved to a bigger town. He grew up on radio, and got his breaks into broadcast journalism with radio gigs. He was a wild teen, surfing through high school with minimal effort and getting kicked out of college for his partying ways. But with some mentors along the way, and a high school classmate, now his wife, he turned his life around. ( ) I could hear Mr. Brokaw's voice as I read. He was such a typical high school jock jerk and almost completely lost his chance with the girl who eventually became his wife. But, he finally caught on and got himself turned around. He had some wonderful growing up experiences. What a fun story to read. We are about the same age, so even though we grew up in different parts of the world, it had such a ring of truth and dredged up memories. Enjoyed very much! 3681. A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland, by Tom Brokaw (read 18 Jan 2003) This is very enjoyable and easy reading. With my wife being from Yankton -- her maiden surname is even mentioned in the book on page 147--and with Brokaw being for a short time the weatherman on a local TV station, I felt this good account of high interest, as did my wife. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author ofThe Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in theThirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom's mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers' project building the Ft. Randall dam along the Missouri River. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle class pleasures and good educations for their children. "Along the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood," Brokaw writes; and as he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded–from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond–he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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