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Boom!:
Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflections
on the '60s and Today
by
Tom Brokaw
In The Greatest Generation,
his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw
eloquently evoked for America what it meant
to come of age during the Great Depression
and the Second World War.
Now, in Boom!, one of
America’s premier journalists gives us an
epic portrait of another defining era in
America as he brings to life the tumultuous
Sixties, a fault line in American history.
The voices and stories of
both famous people and ordinary citizens
come together as Brokaw takes us on a
memorable journey through a remarkable time,
exploring how individual lives and the
national mindset were affected by a
controversial era and showing how the
aftershocks of the Sixties continue to
resound in our lives today.
In the
reflections of a generation, Brokaw also
discovers lessons that might guide us in the
years ahead.
Boom! One
minute it was Ike and the man in the grey
flannel suit, and the next minute it was
time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” While
Americans were walking on the moon,
Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was
beyond question, and there were far fewer
answers than before.
Published
as the fortieth anniversary of 1968
approaches, Boom! gives us what Brokaw sees
as a virtual reunion of some members of “the
class of ’68,” offering wise and moving
reflections and frank personal remembrances
about people’s lives during a time of high
ideals and profound social, political, and
individual change.
What were
the gains, what were the losses? Who were
the winners, who were the losers? As they
look back decades later, what do members of
the Sixties generation think really mattered
in that tumultuous time, and what will have
meaning going forward?
Race,
war, politics, feminism, popular culture,
and music are all explored here, and we
learn from a wide range of people about
their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members
of this generation have gone on to bring
activism and a Sixties mindset into
individual entrepreneurship today.
We hear
stories of how this formative decade has led
to a recalibrated perspective–on business,
the environment, politics, family, our
national existence.
Remarkable in its insights, profoundly
moving, wonderfully written and reported,
this revealing portrait of a generation and
of an era, and of the impact of the 1960s on
our lives today, lets us be present at this
reunion ourselves, and join in these frank
conversations about America then, now, and
tomorrow.
About the
Author
Tom Brokaw is the author of
four bestsellers: The Greatest Generation,
The Greatest Generation Speaks, An Album of
Memories, and A Long Way from Home. From
1976 to 1981 he anchored Today on NBC. He
was the sole anchor and managing editor of
NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw from 1983
to 2004.
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