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The Greatest Generation Speaks- Tom Brokaw (CD)
Title: For People Managing Pain Title: The Greatest Generation Author: Tom Brokaw Genre: History / United States Format: CD, 3 CDs, 4hrs. (Abridged) Synopsis: In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell - through the stories of individual men and women - the story of a generation, American's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to bud modern America. "They won the war; they saved the world. They can home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, The Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated anywhere. They have the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history." This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values - duty, honor, economy courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. "I am in awe of them, these men and women who have given us the world we have today. I feel privileged to have been witness to their stories. A I came to know many of them I became more and more moved by their everyday excellence - and more and more convinced that this is the greatest generation in our country's history." - Tom Brokaw Review: Marjorie Rosen - Biography Magazine ...The Greatest Generation gives heroism a human face....it moved at least one reader (this one!) to tears. At least twice. AudioFile - Dan A. Webster Bathed in the glow of a television screen, NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw makes an imposing figure. As one of the Big Three network news gurus, Brokaw exudes honesty, integrity and a dogged earnestness. His charisma is so strong, in fact, that you're likely not to notice that the man has trouble pronouncing the letter L. When Brokaw's voice sounds through the speakers of a Walkman, however, his speech impediment is much more apparent. Does this occasionally pull the listener away from the stories that he tells in the audiobook version of his bestseller, THE GREATEST GENERATION? How could it not? Does it spoil the experience of listening to him read passages from the book? The answer, fortunately, is no. In portraying the generation of Americans that fought WWII as brave, hard-working and self-sacrificing, Brokaw makes a convincing case. He shows his subjects as flawed sexist, sometimes racist and often intolerant of opposing views but still utterly worthy of respect. Throughout, Brokaw uses his fluid baritone voice to underscore his awe at this ``greatest generation'' in a manner admirable enough to cause any of us to swallow our Ls.