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Summary: the greatest consumers
Review: Should we be surprised that the generation Mr. Brokaw chose to characterize as the "greatest" happens to be the demographic most likely to by a book written by Mr. Brokaw?
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Summary: Interesting - a quick-read, well written, inspiring!
Review: After reading many of the book reviews in this listing, I feel compelled to bring my words of appreciation to Mr Brokaw. Currently serving in the US Air Force, with over 22 years' in service, I can understand the author's need to give thanks to those who offered their lives so willingly for our great country. This is a good book - and a great read for today's boomers and generation Xs. It was not meant to be a detailed text of the war itself - for that, readers should look toward established historical tomes. I salute the "greatest generation" and only hope we can prove ourselves worthy of their many sacrifices. Thanks, sir - and I hope you're considering something along the lines of a millenium review!
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Summary: Good concept. Slow reading.
Review: I found the idea of the book very interesting. Some of the chapters were very well written. For the most part however, it put me to sleep quite often. It wasn't the book I thought it would be. I loaned the book to my father who was in World War 2 in the South Pacific. I'm anxiously awaiting his review of the book.
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Summary: Not the "greatest" in my book.
Review: Sure, this generation won a war, but what was the alternative?In my opinion, all this generation did was run up the world's greatest debt...then leave it to their kids to pay the tab. When they didn't have a war to send their children to, they created one in Vietnam. After killing over 50,000 of us, they decided maybe it wasn't such a good idea afterall. When they decided they didn't want to pay for their own medical bills, they created Medicare. And guess who pays? They underfunded their retirement. And guess who pays? They built a highway system. And guess who pays? They poluted the environment like never before. Guess who pays to clean it up the mess. I do agree with Brokaw on one point, this is one generation that was the greatest at one thing...avoiding responsibility.
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Summary: The most overrated and undereditied book I've ever read.
Review: Redunencies throughout, scant attention to fact, e.g., no mention that WAAC (Women's Auxilliary Army Corps) preceded WAC; no mention of Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, the first commander. And was the woman mentioned Wonda or Wanda? I left my copy elsewhere, hence I can't pinpoint chapter.
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Summary: A good read about a great generation, but the greatest?
Review: Tom Brokaw may have a point, but I pause before completely agreeing with him on the premise of the title. It's hard for me to separate the subject generation from the ones that fought the Civil War or the First World War. I personally think that this country's greatest generation may have been the one that produced our remarkable Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, and then ensured that the government they formed would allow for the potential growth of each succeeding generation. As a member of the Baby Boomers, I'm not certain that my generation, as a whole, appreciates the gift each preceding generation has passed to us. Thus, the importance of such a book by Brokaw, or related works such as Ambrose's, Ryan's and Terkel's histories of WWII events. Such writings allow us each to reflect whether the leaders we are forced to choose today as a matter of economics really have the vision and character to bring this country forward, in the manner that the preceding generations envisioned. This is where the greatness of a generation comes from, the leaders during its formulative years and the leaders it in turn produces. As I said, this book is a good read.....but try Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy (Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road and A Stillness at Appomattox) and see if the resemblance to the Civil War veteran doesn't argue for a smilar "greatest generation".
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Summary: A Must Read by All Generations
Review: This is a must read by all generations. It does get a little repetative with some of the stories but that is ok since each has its own nuiance. If all generations would read this and then see Saving Private Ryan it would help all to understand what WWII was all about. I suspect, however, that our slick Willie wouldn't understand or even comprehend what it was all about!!
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Summary: Tripe to make baby boomers feel good about themselves
Review: The book itself isn't bad - as bad as I would have expected from a media talking head. The problem is that the whole premise of the book seems to be a way for baby boomers to redeem themselves by attaching themselves to the people who fought World War II. This from a generation that never gave a thought for its own children, that trashed their parents until - surprise, surprise, they realized they're growing old, too. So now, all that is old is wonderful, when 30 years ago, all that is young was wonderful. So, while the baby boomers make themselves feel good, yet again, it'll be up to the generations after them to clean up their messes. More books like this will start pouring out as baby boomers realize their own mortality and start searching for ways to make themselves look better.
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Summary: Studs Terkel Must Be Amused
Review: Dear Mr. Brokaw: Shame on you! I suppose most people who have put your feeble offering on the best seller list have forgotten (or never read) Studs Terkel's "The Good War." Otherwise, readers would brand you an inept plagiarist for stealing the format Mr. Terkel used in his outstanding oral history. Your book, a shameless effort to capitalize on the wellspring of emotion generated by Hollywood's latest foray into WWII (i.e. Saving Private Ryand, Thin Red Line), doesn't hold a candle to Terkel's Pulitzer Prize winner. Stick to reading the script on the nightly news. Your book reads as though written by an eight-grader. I cannot believe you actually used the word "hardscrabble" twice! Evidence of your talking-head vocabulary no doubt. I laughed aloud when I noticed that the chapter devoted to George Schultz and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. spanned all of two pages! Why bother? Unfortunately, you give vitality to an observation once made by Gore Vidal: "After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater."
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Summary: Garbage
Review: Which is worse his ego or his partisan views? This guy has an agenda and it's almost as dumbed down as his representation of the news. One more example of the whole show going in the toilet.
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