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Author:	Tom Brokaw	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Random House Inc	Edition Description:	Illustrated
ISBN-10:	0375507639	Subject:	Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13:	9780375507632	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2002	Condition:	Good
Special Attributes:	--

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Synopsis
In this autobiography, renowned television journalist looks at his days growing up in South Dakota and how that experience has stayed with him, influencing his various career decisions.
Size
Length:	233 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	19.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
*Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation.* In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in theThirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom's mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers' project building the Ft. Randall dam along the Missouri River. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle class pleasures and good educations for their children. "Along the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood," Brokaw writes; and as he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded–from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond–he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.

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

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375507639
Title : A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland
EAN : 9780375507632
Authors : Tom Brokaw
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Random House
Publication Date : 2002-11-05
Pages : 256
List Price (MSRP) : 24.95
Height : 1.1000 inches
Width : 5.9000 inches
Length : 9.3000 inches
Weight : 1.2500 pounds
Keywords : Formats, Television Performers, Journalists, General, General AAS, Journalism, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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