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A Long Way from Home : Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties
by Tom Brokaw
Overview
In A Long Way from Home, Tom Brokaw describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota, and the people and places in the American heartland of the 1940s and 1950s that continue to shape his life today. As he reflects on the American experience as he lived and observed it during the central decades of the twentieth century, Brokaw writes of his parentsÂ’ lives during the Great Depression, his boyhood along the Missouri River, the happy days of his adolescence in Yankton, and his early years in broadcast journalism on the cusp of the turbulent 1960s. As he recounts his own American pilgrimage, Tom Brokaw also explores what brought him and so many Americans to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780375759352
- ISBN-10: 0375759352
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publish Date: September 2003
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.28 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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