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Books : Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and TodayIn association with Amazon.comby: Tom Brokaw  List Price: $28.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.11 You Save: $9.84 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 973.92 EAN: 9781400064571 ISBN: 1400064570 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 688 Publication Date: November 06, 2007 Publisher: Random House Release Date: November 06, 2007 Studio: Random House Sales Rank: 8808 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessons that might guide us in the years ahead. Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before. Published as the fortieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, Boom! gives us what Brokaw sees as a virtual reunion of some members of “the class of ’68,” offering wise and moving reflections and frank personal remembrances about people’s lives during a time of high ideals and profound social, political, and individual change. What were the gains, what were the losses? Who were the winners, who were the losers? As they look back decades later, what do members of the Sixties generation think really mattered in that tumultuous time, and what will have meaning going forward? Race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture, and music are all explored here, and we learn from a wide range of people about their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship today. We hear stories of how this formative decade has led to a recalibrated perspective–on business, the environment, politics, family, our national existence. Remarkable in its insights, profoundly moving, wonderfully written and reported, this revealing portrait of a generation and of an era, and of the impact of the 1960s on our lives today, lets us be present at this reunion ourselves, and join in these frank conversations about America then, now, and tomorrow. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SurprisedFirst, let me just say that I am surprised. I figured a left wing media guy with a left wing reputation would have written a left wing book, but this wasn't the case. Having been in college in the late Sixties myself, I lived through much of what this book talks about. I wondered what happened to some of the prominent figures of the time. Brokaw does a tremendous job of reporting fairly on all topics and interviewing both the left wing and the right wing zealots of today, no matter how they began ... Read More Rating: - Very Informative BookSince I was 15 in 1968 I came in on the very end of the Sixties. I learned that there was a whole lot more going on than I had realized. If you have a yearning to know what it was like, then do yourself a favor and read this. I found it very easy to read. You will be introduced to names you may have heard, but had no idea what their contribution to life was. Rating:  - Part Boom...Part BustThe Table of Contents reads like a "Who's Who" of liberal thinking. Then again, the subtitle does say "Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today", so the fact that it shows Brokaw's personal liberal bias should come as no surprise. Some of the stories were interesting, and some I just skipped over. But the format was good, and his style is easy to read. I grew up in the 60s, and it fascinates me how people can remember the same event so differently. For me the best ... Read More Rating: - WORTH THE READ BUT QUITE DISAPPOINTING.Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw is a rather difficult work for me to assess as I have so many mixed emotions concerning this time of change in or country. First, just to let you know where I am coming from, I am extremely liberal in many of my views and extremely conservative on others. There is very little middle ground for me. I was a career military man and did indeed serve in the Viet Nam War. I, like many others have rather bitter memories of that time and place. I was and am not ... Read More Rating:  - BoomThe book was very interesting and a quick read. But it was also too long and was redundant at times. The use of pictures to show people discussed both in the sixties and as they are today was very effective. While the book was about the Boom generation Brokow spends quite a bit of time on people from his generation as well as writing about his own personal life. All in all the book provides a good incite into what was happening in the late 1960's and was worth the investment of time to read. Browse for similar items by category:
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