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Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw is the author of five best sellers: The Greatest Generation, The Greatest Generation Speaks, An Album of Memories, A Long Way from Home, and BOOM! A native of South Dakota, he graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He began his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC News during Watergate, and from 1976 to 1981 he anchored Today on NBC. He was the sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw from 1983 to 2005... Read More
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Reset
Written by Kurt Andersen, Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Hardcover | July 2009
$15.00/17.50(Canada) | 978-1-4000-6898-2 (1-4000-6898-3)
“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public... Read more
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Reset
Written by Kurt Andersen, Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Random House | eBook |
$15.00/17.50(Canada) | 978-1-58836-964-2 (1-58836-964-1)
“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public... Read more
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An Album of Memories
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Hardcover | May 2001
$29.95/44.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-50581-2 (0-375-50581-4)
A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway — as well as their life on the home... Read more
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An Album of Memories
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | eBook |
$16.00/19.95(Canada) | 978-1-58836-005-2 (1-58836-005-9)
A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway — as well as their life on the home... Read more
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An Album of Memories
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$20.00/25.00(Canada) | 978-1-4159-2077-0 (1-4159-2077-X)
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences...The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more
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An Album of Memories
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | April 2002
$16.00/19.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-76041-9 (0-375-76041-5)
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences...The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more
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An Album of Memories
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$12.50/15.50(Canada) | 978-0-7393-0037-4 (0-7393-0037-7)
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences...The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | October 2008
$18.00/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7511-6 (0-8129-7511-1)
In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America’s premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together in this “virtual reunion” as Brokaw takes... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Hardcover | November 2007
$28.95/34.95(Canada) | 978-1-4000-6457-1 (1-4000-6457-0)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Compact Disc | November 2007
$29.95/37.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4075-2 (0-7393-4075-1)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$14.98/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4076-9 (0-7393-4076-X)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | eBook |
$18.00/22.00(Canada) | 978-1-58836-647-4 (1-58836-647-2)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Robertson Dean
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$27.50/33.00(Canada) | 978-1-4159-4348-9 (1-4159-4348-6)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Large Print | Trade Paperback | November 2007
$28.95/36.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-2682-4 (0-7393-2682-1)
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$17.50/22.00(Canada) | 978-1-4159-2070-1 (1-4159-2070-2)
The heartwarming New York Times bestseller by the author of The Greatest Generation
"When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today ..... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Boxed Set | September 2004
$74.85/109.85(Canada) | 978-0-8129-6521-6 (0-8129-6521-3)
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | October 2005
$14.95/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7530-7 (0-8129-7530-8)
The heartwarming New York Times bestseller by the author of The Greatest Generation
"When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today ..... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Hardcover | November 1999
$19.95/29.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-50394-8 (0-375-50394-3)
"I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$12.95/16.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-0047-3 (0-7393-0047-4)
The heartwarming New York Times bestseller by the author of The Greatest Generation
"When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today ..... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | Hardcover | May 2004
$28.00/33.00(Canada) | 978-1-4000-6314-7 (1-4000-6314-0)
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | May 2001
$15.95/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7529-1 (0-8129-7529-4)
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Compact Disc | December 1998
$30.00/37.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-40566-2 (0-375-40566-6)
3 CDs / 4 hours
Read by the Author, Tom Brokaw
Also available on cassette
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... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw, Read by Tom Brokaw
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$12.95/16.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-0046-6 (0-7393-0046-6)
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House Large Print | Trade Paperback | December 1998
$24.95/34.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-70569-4 (0-375-70569-4)
Read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Large Print.
* All Random House Large Print Editions are published in 16-point type
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of... Read more
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The Greatest Generation
Written by Tom Brokaw
Random House | eBook |
$15.95/19.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-50462-4 (0-375-50462-1)
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience... Read more
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