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.
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Brokaw opens a window onto the prairie during the Depression years. With a newsman's eye for detail, he reveals vignettes of his family's hardscrabble existence and his own sometimes cocky push to the big time. Short in comparison to many famous reminiscences, this entrancing evocation might have had even greater potency were it read in Brokaw's own mellow tones. Talented as Cashman is as a reader, he lacks the fluidity of the well-known announcer. This becomes most apparent when quoting Brokaw's actual broadcasts. Nevertheless, there are ample reasons to be grateful for this recording. For charm and historic value alone, it should not be missed. S.B.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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