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Summary: Found this to be excellent reading.
Review: The events in this book took place during my high school years. Our only information about this time was thru the media, i.e., radio, newpaper, and movie newsreels. To read about the actual experiences of these people was eye opening and added to my understanding of that war much as the movie SAVING PRIVATE RYAN did to make more relevant. My 6th grade teacher daughter said they both should be required reading/viewing for that age group.
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Summary: Excellent, should be required reading in High schools.
Review: This book is fantastic. I am 34 years old, reading this book brought back memories of all of the comments my granparents made about this time in America. This book should be required reading for High-school juniors and seniors who feel that after a community project or two (undoubtedly for school credit) feel they are "owed" something. Thank you, Mr. Browkaw, for letting me read about what I didnt have the sense to listen for (from my Grandparents). Mark K.
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Summary: How Times Have Changed
Review: Although some of the chapters were redundant, The Greatest Generation is a great lesson in history and should be required reading in every high school and college throughout this nation. Then maybe...just maybe we Baby-boomers, and Generation X'ers and Angsters and Ganstas and the self-righteous, and selfish, and self-indulgent, and self-pitying might return to a value system based on responsibility, work, selflessness, fairness, commitment, honesty, and loyalty.
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Summary: Look at the reviewers who hated it.
Review: I am an eighties child. Too old for gen-x, past the baby boom. I see those older than me(I am 26), as a group of people yelling "Not my fault!" The baby boomers in my opinion never grew from being just that, babies. This book details the lives of people who to take responsibility for their actions. Living the American dream was worth fighting for, and was never achieved by suing someone. The only group I know I can trust as a whole(with a few exceptions) are those from the generation presented in this book. It is only for this group that America is the great nation that it is today.
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Summary: Should have left the politics out.
Review: The day I bought this book I couldn't wait to start reading it. But I soon realized it was just another Politically correct book from one of TV's talking heads. Almost every life story in the book was about how they made it through the war and into the Democratic party to make the world a better place, with a few token stories about some other people who happened to be republicans and thus thier stories were glossed over. My question is, What does politics have to do with these storise? A disappointing book over all.
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Summary: Yuppie View of WWII Americans
Review: Unfortunately, this book is just a series of repetitive "snippets" that really does little to tell the story of this generation. I am about Brokaw's age and my parents and their brothers and sisters numbered 17 in total. I have heard all the stories, and have three uncles buried in Europe. I found Brocaw with little talent (this book could have been done by a mediocre college sophomore) and a love for "Brocaw". Never have I seen a "talking head" lever his TV exposure to the extent this guy has. He, like a lot of his generation gave little, reaped plenty and are looking for legitimacy via the accomplishments of their parents. Also, please note he put his name on every other page. Really a tacky work. The "ME" generation is true to form !!!!
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Summary: a feel good soft and sentimental recollection of WW2.----
Review: Since World War Two, we have all traveled our separate paths, and all of us have had many blissful and sad times, but somehow one thing has always remained in my memory, that never before nor since has there been a time when we were as together as we were then, as certain of what we wanted and who we were. For many of us it is one of the most intense and personal memories of our lives. It was certainly the end of our age of innocence. However having said that, I can honestly say that calling us the Greatest Generation is quite pretentious. Let us remember that it was also a time, as through out our history where many indiscretions and inproprieties occurred. Nevertheless it was a group of outstanding and remarkable citizens who united together and rolled with the punches. I was born in the roaring twenties and I believe that all generations may not have to cope with a depression nor a war but they all have something great to offer that will always be unique and different.
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Summary: needed to have more depth
Review: Very easy book to read but the author needed to have longer chapters about indivduals and should have profiled fewer people. I came away with the feeling that only veterans from south dakota made a difference in the war. As a vietnam vet I was interested in the few comparisons that the author made between ww11 and the vietnam conflict. I feel that the author was trying to get present generations to be more thankful to the ww11 vet and he makes his case that we indeed should do that. I will try to seek out the ww11 vet in my hometown and simply say thank you and hopefully 30 years from now tom brokaw will write a book about the vietnam war and generation z will seek me out and say thank you.
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Summary: Our parents are special...duh
Review: While most people described in this book are certainly interesting, many are regular people (like me) with fine achievements but with no particular attractiveness to warrant inclusion in a "greatest" list. I keep waiting to see what many of these "greatest" people did,,,and wonder why my parents, of the same generation and with a better story (at least in my opinion), weren't included! Short, basic bios. Its a fair night stand book...for those who fall asleep easily.
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Summary: first svg pvt ryan, now this.. we owe so much..but..
Review: Seeing "pvt. ryan" piqued in me an interest in the sacrafices made by those individuals, specifically At Normandie, and generally in the free world at that time, that evil be vanquished, and order restored to the world. That interest led me to several excellent tomes by Stephen Ambrose, and then to Mr. Brokaw's work. I was swept up in the spirit of the book, the stories which it told. Brokaw is to be commended, for his effort, and especially for the sentiments behind it. I wish that I had been able to take part in the events,(1984 not "44) that inspired him. However, once the swelling of pride and gratitude recede, and one looks at the work, it regretably does not deliver. Brokaw has not the training to put the proper tone into these stories. They lay flat. Perhaps if more time were given to fewer stories, it would be possible to achieve that level. Brokaw writes as a newsman, not displaying enough of the emotion he so obviously (to those who have seen his promotional spots on Rosie, Tim Russet, etc.) feels.
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