The Greatest Generation
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In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell - through the stories of individual men and women - the story of a generation, American's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to bud modern America. Biography Magazine - Marjorie Rosen ...The Greatest Generation gives heroism a human face....it moved at least one reader (this one!) to tears. At least twice.
AcknowledgmentsGenerationsThe Time of their Lives3Ordinary PeopleThomas and Eileen Broderick: Insurance Agency Owner17Charles O. Van Gorder, MD: Surgeon25Wesley Ko: Printing Business37James and Dorothy Dowling: Highway Superintendent45Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond: Anglican Priest55Lloyd Kilmer: County Clerk and Real Estate Executive61Gordon Larsen: Powerhouse Operator69John "Lefty" Caulfield: School Principal77Home FrontCharles Briscoe: Boeing Engineer89Dorothy Haener: UAW Organizer96HeroesBob Bush: Lumber and Building Supply Business105Joe Foss: U.S. Marine Corps Pilot115Leonard "Bud" Lomell: Lawyer125Women in Uniform and OutMary Hallaren: Colonel, U.S. Army, Women's Auxiliary Corps139Jeanne Holm: General, U.S. Air Force139Marion Rivers Nittel151Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach: Teacher/Real Estate Agent151Alison Ely Campbell151Margaret Ray Ringenberg: Women's Air Force Service Pilot163Mary Louise Roberts Wilson: U.S. Army Nurse Corps173ShameMartha Settle Putney: History Professor185Johnnie Holmes: Real Estate Investor193Luis Armijo: Schoolteacher203Nao Takasugi: California State Assemblyman215Norman Mineta: California Congressman215Love, Marriage, CommitmentJohn and Peggy Assenzio: Salesman/Teacher233The Dumbos241Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson: Governor and Senator249Jeanette Gagne Norton257Daphne Cavin257Famous PeopleGeorge Bush: President of the United States273Ben Bradlee: Journalist281Art Buchwald: Writer287Andy Rooney: Journalist293Julia Child: Chef299Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion: Chemist303Chesterfield Smith: Attorney, President of the American Bar Association307Al Neuharth: Founder, USA Today319Maurice "Hank" Greenberg: CEO, American International Group319The ArenaMark Hatfield: U.S. Senator333Robert Dole: U.S. Senator, Presidential Candidate341Daniel Inouye: U.S. Senator349Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense357Lloyd Cutler: Counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton365George Shultz: Cabinet Member369Arthur Schlesinger: Historian369Ed Guthman: Journalist, Press Secretary to Robert F. Kennedy377The Twilight of their Lives381
