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(0)TOM BROKAW
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The television journalist describes life growing up in the heart of the American Midwest and his early journalism career in the 1960s, reflecting on the people, places, culture, and values that shaped him and continue to shape him today.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Collects letters sent to the author in response to "The Greatest Generation," his tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War II and came home to build a new America during the post war era.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the "greatest generation" of Americans, from the Great Depression to the Bataan Death March and beyond, in a series of biographical profiles that chronicle the experiences of ordinary Americans who became caught up in historic twentieth-century events.