Brokaw, Tom.

Boom! : voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today / Tom Brokaw. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2007. - xxi, 662 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

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 versus 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: Sen. 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 Muscatine -- Something's happening here: Dr. David Smith; Judy Collins; Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert; Jann Wenner; Kris Kristofferson; Berry Gordy; Woody Miller -- 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. Ruth Simmons; 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 -- 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 -- Timeline.

9781400064571 (alk. paper)

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Brokaw, Tom.


Social change--History--United States--20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Nineteen sixties.
Cambio social--Historia--Estados Unidos--Siglo 20.
Periodistas--Estados Unidos--BiografĂ­a.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
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United States--History--1961-1969.
United States--History--1961-1969--Biography.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
Estados Unidos--Historia--1961-1969.
Estados Unidos--Historia--1961-1969
Estados Unidos--Condiciones sociales--1960-1980.

002 E 841 / B867b 2007

973.92