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Summary: A Personal Perspective
Review: My Aunt won a Nobel in 1988 for her work in cancer research and is one of the people featured in this book. Normally this sort of reading is not what I gravitate towards, but when Trudy passed away in February I found myself clinging to whatever of her I could find and walked out of a local bookstore with this book. I read the section on her first and was quite moved by how well it was written. Of course she will always be a different image to me being that she was family - but this professional perspective is short and concise and a good read. A while later I did start reading the rest of the book and have to say it has been enjoyable especially with my busy schedule I can pick this up, plug into a chapter and not be lost if I come back to the book weeks later. It's what we called subway reading in my family!
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Summary: A poignant and moving example of what we have lost
Review: This incredible book made me take a good long look at myself and my generation, known as Generation X. Tom Brokaw's re-introduction of the aptly named "Greatest Generation" to us young people was long overdue. If only the teenagers today could understand what our Grandparents did for all of us. As I have just really found out. I read this book voraciously, and found myself in tears, but could never put it down. As a matter of fact, I felt that twinge of sadness as I found myself at the last page. I am purchasing three more copies to send to my younger cousins. I hope they get as much from it as I did. An incredible book, which will send me into the new millenium with a greater understanding of how America has changed in a mere 60 years.
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Summary: Typical-heart in the right place, head stuck elsewhere...
Review: I would have thought it universal among the baby boomer generation that one day we all would realize that our fathers were better men at 16 than we were at 30. Now that I am 45, I am beginning to see that perhaps my intuition was too broad based. Few of my peers ever really left the embarrassingly immature views espoused during the sixties in the sixties where they belong. Tom Brokaw is absolutely right in characterizing "The Greatest Generation". Had he managed to do so in an objective manner, the book would have weathered it's poor editing more handily. As it is, Brokaw's apparent inability to not project his own politics into a story is as pronounced here as it is on the Clinton Administrations favorite propaganda outlet, the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Take the good with the bad-there are moments even Brokaw cannot spoil for us. For a more useful look at the "greatest" generation and the true mettle of our nations resolve and courage, I would suggest "Once an Eagle" is a good place to start. Jerry Furland, Author of "Transfer-the end of the beginning..."
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Summary: It's A Great Book
Review: A lot of reviews make the book's simplicity of style a negative. what a surprise since it doesn't read like textbook and in fact makes history more human, and to me, more significant.
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Summary: Only thing I agree with Brokaw about.
Review: With true stories about simple American heroes, The Greatest Generation is worthy of comparison to the best books about the men and women who fought and won WWII, The Winds of War, The Stephen Ambrose books, and The Triumph & the Glory come to mind, but perhaps the greatest praise for the greatest generation is THAT EVEN TOM BROKAW WAS ABLE TO RECOGNIZE HONOR AND DECENCY WHEN HE SAW IT. There's hope for NBC News yet!
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Summary: Surprised
Review: I read the book and I've read some of the reviews. The book is an easy read. It is not a literary breakthrough, but a good story about a sometimes forgotten generation. The accusations by reader/reviewers of racism, bias, poor research, poor enunciation are surprising. It is too bad we cannot read and enjoy a book for what it is: A tribute to some of those who fought and preserved our freedom. I didn't expect to read a factual history, detailed analysis, of the period and I am surprised that others did. I enjoyed the stories, the point of view and even the parts that I found too wordy and somewhat boring. But, I guess I'm too tolerant.
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Summary: Interesting content, poor writting and editing
Review: The stories of the people depicted in the book are interesting. Ranging from really interesting to somewhat interesting. These were people that made a difference and deserve our respect. However the book is poorly put together. It seems as if I am watching a TV show on paper. A poor end result. Would not recommend.
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Summary: I'm a little ashamed after reading this one...
Review: Story after story, I was amazed at what took place, at what people did with their lives. The Greatest Generation is a perfect title to describe such a group of people. I'm comparatively very young. I'm right in the middle of the so-called generation X. After reading this book, I realized that we owe much, so very, very much to our parents and grandparents. I thought I knew history. I thought I knew what happened. I didn't. I only knew the historical details and facts, not personal stories. Now I know that the details and facts I learned in college don't amount to much at all, and no history lesson is going to ever teach you that. This book will. I'm somewhat ashamed of my own generation, and I'm very honored to know a little more of a prior generation that deserves FAR more credit than we X'ers give them. This is an excellent book. This will force you to reconsider the value of your parents and grandparents, no matter how you think you already value them. I wonder what my generation will be called in 40-50 years. I doubt the word Greatest will be used, and least not in a positive light. When you finish one story, you will either put away the book just to consider in amazement what you've just read, or you'll hasten to read another story, and then another, and then another. All are excellent! Believe me - I'm not a big history fan, but I loved every square inch of this book. I treasure this book. I think everyone will.
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Summary: The Greatest Generation is Not the Greatest Book!
Review: While the subject matter was of great importance, its treatment in quite a number of places was rather shallow. And a horrendous error in the chapter about the Japanese Americans is inexcusable. Whether the author doesn't know that the Nikkei (their spelling) is a stock exchange in Tokyo or his proofreaders didn't know that or whether they just didn't pay attention, or they just didn't care, is what makes it inexcusable. Then when they did try to correct it to Nisei later in the chapter, they still misspelled it. Do they know the term at all! Some readers may be able to accept such errors, but I'm not that tolerant. I'm not of Japanese descent but I consider that carelessness (or lack of knowledge, which is worse) rather insulting. Those incidents were overall detractors from what could have been a great story. (Okay, so the author did make a pile of money off it! That only means that thousands of copies were sold, not that it was a great book.) My copy was a gift.
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Summary: WHAT A FANTASTIC BOOK
Review: I am 33 yrs old and I agree that this was the greatest generation. I think that the stories told in this book are very important. The sacrifice made was a great and unselfish one. Thank You for a great book Mr.Brokaw.
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