Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
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The author of the bestselling The Greatest Generation takes us on a tour of the turbulent 1960s, blending his personal reflections with firsthand accounts from the people that lived through it. The New York Times - Janet Maslin [Brokaw] approaches this magnum opus with warmth, curiosity and conviction, the same attributes that worked so well for his Greatest Generation. And he will succeed in prompting readers to step back and do some soul searching. Boom! is as interesting for the effects it can catalyze as for those it actually describes. This book would be an odd and sprawling compendium were it not for the unifying effect of Mr. Brokaw's companionable style. His writing makes up in intimacy what it lacks in fancy footwork, even if a quota of '60s cultural boilerplate is part of the package…On the page, as he is on the screen, Mr. Brokaw is a canny, perceptive interviewer with an honest interest in what other people have to say.
Introduction: What Was That All About? xiiiSomething's Happening Here 1A Loss of Innocence 3He Had a Dream 39Representative John Lewish and Julian Bond 47Reverend Andrew Young 55Tom Turnipseed 62Reverend Thomas Gilmore 69The Fracture of 1968: The Noisy Masses versus the Silent Majority 79Jeff Greenfield and Sam Brown 84Mayor Richard M. Daley and William Daley 103Pat Buchanan 110A Place Called Vietnam 127We Had to Destroy the Village: Captain Gene Kimmel and Dr. Les Gelb 128Married to Vietnam: Tom and Nellie Coakley 141Oh, Canada: Jeffry House 155Semper Fi: Senator James Webb, Mike "Mac" McGarvey, and James Fallows 163A Woman's Place 189Nora Ephron 197Gloria Steinem 203Joan Growe 208Muriel Kraszewski 214Dr. Judith Rodin 218Carla Hills and Joan Didion 224Lissa Muscatine 232Something's Happening Here 241Dr. David Smith 243Judy Collins 249Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert 253Jann Wenner 259Kris Kristofferson 262Berry Gordy 267Woody Miller 275Aftershocks: Consequences, Intended and Otherwise 283A Dream Fulfilled and a Dream Deferred 287Charlene Stimley Priester and Ouida Barnett Atkins 297Stan Sanders 310Dr Shelby Steele 319Dr. Cleveland Sellers 329The Reagan Revolution and the Democrats' Identity Crisis 339President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich 341Senator George McGovern and Senator Gary Hart 359Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney 369Pat Buchanan and Senator Hillary Clinton 393Second Thoughts and the Long View 406Sam Brown 406Jeremy Larner 408Carl Pope 409Ed Crane 417Dolores Huerta 421The War Without End 429David Cadwell 431General Colin Powell 435General Wayne Downing 440Senator John McCain 447Senator Bob Kerrey 452Senator Chuck Hagel 460Dr. Charles Desmond 465Ron Armella 469Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Peter Davis 474I Am Woman 481Jane Pauley 486Anne Taylor Fleming 494Linda Greenhouse 498Dorothy Rabinowitz 502Dr. Ruth Simmons 505Dr. Susan Miller 510Like a Rolling Stone 515James Taylor 517Paul Simon 523Jann Wenner 530Warren Beatty 532Lawrence Kasdan 535Lorne Michaels 541Dick Gregory 548Tommy Smothers 552Leonard Riggio 554Reflections: Seeing What Connects 563The View from the Moon 565Garry Trudeau 568Other Voices 570Joan Baez and Don McLean 579Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins 586Jack Weinberg 591Stewart Brand 597Captain Jim Lovell 605Acknowledgments 613Timeline 617Permissions and Credits 623Index 629
