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A long way from home growing up in the American heartland

The television journalist describes life growing up in the heart of the American Midwest and his early journalism career in the 1960s, reflecting on the people, places, culture, and values that shaped him and continue to shape him today.--

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  • "A collection of memories and reflections in which Tom Brokow speaks of growing up in the American heartland and of the people, the culture, and the values that have shaped his life. He describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota from 1940 to 1960, and his parents' early lives during the twenties and thirties. He also reflects on the American experience, as he has lived and observed it, during the central decades of the twentieth century."
  • "The television journalist describes life growing up in the heart of the American Midwest and his early journalism career in the 1960s, reflecting on the people, places, culture, and values that shaped him and continue to shape him today.--"@en
  • "A collection of memories and reflections. Tom Brokow speaks of growing up in the American heartland and of the people, the culture, and the values that have shaped his life. He describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota from 1940 to 1960 and his parents' early lives during the twenties and thirties. He also reflects on the American experience, as he has lived and observed it, during the central decades of the twentieth century."@en
  • "Brokaw writes a beautiful meditation on the enduring attraction of the American heartland for those who are forever influenced by its values."
  • "In A long way from home, beloved veteran NBC anchorman and author of several bestselling books 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 parents' 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."@en
  • "In his memoir, Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience, from his parents' life in the thirties to his early journalism career in the tumultuous sixties to the present day."@en

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