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Author Brokaw, Tom.

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

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2007]
©2007

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.92 BROKAW    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 662 pages : illustrations ; cm
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.
Subject United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Biography.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Nineteen sixties.
Brokaw, Tom.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9781400064571 alkaline paper
1400064570 alkaline paper
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