A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties

Rating:
Summary: A simple pleasure...
Review: Veteran newscaster Brokaw made me weep with THE GREATEST GENERATION, so I had high hopes for this one. Undoubtedly, his essays are thoughtfully, honestly written and he is both a gentleman and a scholar. However, this work is often too self indulgent (as autobiographical works can be!) to evoke much emotion from the average reader. For example: It's hard to get too choked up over his financial struggles in the post-Depression midwest when, in the same sentence, he mentions negotiating a multi-million dollar contract or his sprawling Manhattan condo.

I look forward to adding more of Brokaw's works to my library, and hope he will devote a good portion of his upcoming retirement from the Nightly News to writing!