The Greatest Generationby Tom Brokaw - I've seen this book many times on the shelves of both my previous library and here at Loogootee. I've been drawn to it but never had either the time or the impetus to delve into it deeper. However, after attending a session of my Teaching American History fellowship and listening to two WWII veterans relive their harrowing experiences during this time, I felt compelled and inspired to finally read more about the amazingly heroic men who alterted the history of our great nation.
In this moving book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.
