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Title

Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today / Tom Brokaw.

Author

Brokaw, Tom.

Publication

New York : Random House, c2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 662 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Nineteen sixties
• National characteristics, American
• Brokaw, Tom
• United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980
• Social change > United States > History > 20th century
• Journalists > United States > Biography
• United States > History > 1961-1969 > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Introduction : What was that all about? -- pt. 1. Something's happening here -- A loss of innocence -- He had a dream -- Representative John Lewis and Julian Bond -- Reverend Andrew Young -- Tom Turnipseed -- Reverend Thomas Gilmore -- The fracture of 1968 : the noisy masses vs. the silent majority -- Jeff Greenfield and Sam Brown -- Mayor Richard M. Daley and William Daley -- Pat Buchanan -- A place called Vietnam -- We had to destroy the village : Captain Gene Kimmel and Dr. Les Gelb -- Married to Vietnam : Tom and Nellie Coakley -- Oh, Canada : Jeffry House -- Semper fi : Senator James Webb, Mike "Mac" McGarvey, and James Fallows -- A woman's place -- Nora Ephron -- Gloria Steinem -- Joan Growe -- Muriel Kraszewski -- Dr. Judith Rodin -- Carla Hills and Joan Didion -- Lissa Mascatine -- Something's happening here -- Dr. David Smith -- Judy Collins -- Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert -- Jann Wenner -- Kris Kristofferson -- Berry Gordy -- Woody Miller -- pt. 2. Aftershocks : consequences, intended and otherwise -- A dream fulfilled and a dream deferred -- Charlene Stimley Priester and Ouida Barnett Atkins -- Stan Sanders -- Dr. Shelby Steele -- Dr. Cleveland Sellers -- The Reagan revolution and the Democrats' identity crisis -- President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich -- Senator George McGovern and Senator Gary Hart -- Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney -- Pat Buchanan and Senator Hillary Clinton -- Second thoughts and the long view -- Sam Brown -- Jeremy Larner -- Carl Pope -- Ed Crane -- Dolores Huerta --
• The war without end -- David Cadwell -- General Colin Powell -- General Wayne Downing -- Senator John McCain -- Senator Bob Kerrey -- Senator Chuck Hagel -- Dr. Charles Desmond -- Ron Armella -- Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Peter Davis -- I am woman -- Jane Pauley -- Anne Taylor Fleming -- Linda Greenhouse -- Dorothy Rabinowitz -- Dr. Susan Miller -- Like a rolling stone -- James Taylor -- Paul Simon -- Jann Wenner -- Warren Beatty -- Lawrence Kasdan -- Lorne Michaels -- Dick Gregory -- Tommy Smothers -- Leonard Riggio -- pt. 3. Reflections : seeing what connects -- The view from the moon -- Garry Trudeau -- Other voices -- Joan Baez and Don McLean -- Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins -- Jack Weinberg -- Stewart Brand -- Captain Jim Lovell --
• Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Permissions and credits -- Index.

Call Number

Sc E 08-383

ISBN

• 9781400064571 (alk. paper)
• 1400064570 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007028253

OCLC

157022671

Author

Brokaw, Tom.

Title

Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today / Tom Brokaw.

Imprint

New York : Random House, c2007.

Edition

1st ed.

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Research Call Number

Sc E 08-383