The Greatest Generation By: Tom Brokaw

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Synopsis and Personal Reaction for The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

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Synopsis

In The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw offers a series of personal accounts from the generation that grew up during the Great Depression served in World War II , and led the post-war economic recovery in the United States . He calls this generation the greatest . that any society has produced (xxx . After a foreword and introduction that lays out Brokaw 's arguments in support of this greatest generation label

, he organizes the book with different categories for the people he interviewed . These categories are Ordinary People Home Front Heroes Women in Uniform and Out Shame Love , Marriage and Commitment Famous People and The Arena (xi-xiv . He closes his book with The Twilight of Their Lives ' which documents the later years of this generation and offers a final perspective on Brokaw 's greatest generation (xv

Brokaw 's main arguments that this generation deserves to be called the greatest are that they came from poverty during the Great Depression offered generous and courageous service to the United States , and rebuilt the U .S . economy after World War II . Most interviews focus on aspects of these three time periods in American history : how the times affected the interviewee , and how the interviewee affected the times

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Personal Reaction to Leonard Bud ' Lomell

Of all the remarkable personal accounts in this book , I was especially impressed with the story of Leonard Bud...