A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties

A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties | Tom Brokaw | excellent

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	A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties Tom Brokaw Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In A Long Way from Home, Tom Brokaw describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota, and the people and places in the American heartland of the 1940s and 1950s that continue to shape his life today. As he reflects on the American experience as he lived and observed it during the central decades of the twentieth century, Brokaw writes of his parents? lives during the Great Depression, his boyhood along the Missouri River, the happy days of his adolescence in Yankton, and his early years in broadcast journalism on the cusp of the turbulent 1960s. As he recounts his own American pilgrimage, Tom Brokaw also explores what brought him and so many Americans to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.

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Shared Moments

Tom Brokaw has always projected to his viewers a caring, sincere presence
as he outlined the happenings of the day in our nation and around the world. Even if the news he broadcasted was sad or shocking he gave us the feeling that we could get through this together. This book offers the same
warmth and sincerity in describing my similar experiences in growing up
during and after WWII.

excellent

Been there and done that. Refreshing read! Stirred up many old memories and recollections.

Roots are essential

Brokaw gives a seemingly honest and direct account of his formative years. His respect and admiration for his parents gives him guidelines for a life in the limelight where it may be easy to loose one's footing.

It is interesting to get a glimpse of the life in the heartland of the U. S. in the forties and fifties when so much of my own perception of the U. S. from a Scandinavian viewpoint was formed.

Congratulations to Tom Brokaw for a fine book!

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Simple but decent

One reviewer called this book "for simpletons by a simpleton." Well, as I have very little respect for today's mainstream media, especially Dan Rather and Katie Couric, Brokaw, though preachy, is better than most. This book is a simple book, but it's also pleasant and does lend insight into his modest upbringing in South Dakota---far different from what the elites usually value.

I read it while I drove cross country, which is probably why I gave it 3 stars, rather than 2, as I appreciated it more.

Brokaw may be biased and pedantic now, but he's no ninnyhammer either. He covered stories with some depth, and was rarely lazy or a liar, like Rather. And he worked hard to get where he was, without modern affirmative action. The stories of Big Sky country and the "tragedies" he observed befalling the "Natives" when he returned were unnecessary and awkward, though.

He's still better than Brian Williams.

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