The time of our lives

Resource Information

The work The time of our lives represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Morton Public Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The time of our lives

Statement of responsibility

Tom Brokaw

Creator

• Brokaw, Tom

Author

• Brokaw, Tom

Subject

• Social problems -- United States
• Television journalists -- United States -- Biography
• Television news anchors -- United States -- Biography
• Brokaw, Tom
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
• United States -- Forecasting
• National characteristics, American

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations

Cataloging source

UPB/DLC

Dewey number

973.927

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E839

LC item number

.B69 2011

Literary form

non fiction