Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Generations | |
The time of their lives | p. 3 |
Ordinary people | |
Thomas and Eileen Broderick | p. 17 |
Charles O. Van Gorder, MD | p. 25 |
Wesley Ko | p. 37 |
James and Dorothy Dowling | p. 45 |
Rev. Harry Reginald "Reg" Hammond | p. 55 |
Lloyd Kilmer | p. 61 |
Gordon Larsen | p. 69 |
John "Lefty" Caulfield | p. 77 |
Home Front | |
Charles Briscoe | p. 89 |
Dorothy Haener | p. 96 |
Heroes | |
Bob Bush | p. 105 |
Joe Foss | p. 115 |
Leonard "Bud" Lomell" | p. 125 |
Women in uniform and out | |
Colonel Mary Hallaren | p. 139 |
General Jeanne Holm | p. 139 |
Marion Rivers Nittel | p. 151 |
Claudine "Scottie" Lingelbach | p. 151 |
Alison Ely Campbell | p. 151 |
Margaret Ray Ringenberg | p. 163 |
Mary Louise Roberts Wilson | p. 173 |
Shame | |
Martha Settle Putney | p. 185 |
Johnnie Holmes | p. 193 |
Luis Armijo | p. 203 |
Nao Takasugi | p. 215 |
Norman Mineta | p. 215 |
Love, marriage, and commitment | |
John and Peggy Assenzio | p. 233 |
The Dumbos | p. 241 |
Gaylord and Carrie Lee Nelson | p. 251 |
Jeanette Gagne Norton | p. 257 |
Daphne Cavin | p. 257 |
Famous people | |
George Bush | p. 273 |
Ben Bradlee | p. 281 |
Art Buchwald | p. 287 |
Andy Rooney | p. 293 |
Julia Child | p. 299 |
Gertrude Belle "Trudy" Elion | p. 303 |
Chesterfield Smith | p. 307 |
Al Neuharth | p. 319 |
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg | p. 319 |
The arena | |
Mark Hatfield | p. 333 |
Robert Dole | p. 341 |
Daniel Inouye | p. 349 |
Caspar Weinberger | p. 357 |
Lloyd Cutler | p. 365 |
George Shultz | p. 369 |
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
Excerpted from The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.