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| Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Brokaw
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
List Price: $28.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 8826
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 1400064570
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9781400064571
ASIN: 1400064570
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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Condition: ex-library, nice reading copy
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 Ignore the negative reviews - this is as even as you can get May 4, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm guessing that the negative comments came from people who are only happy when a book totally trashes everything liberal and glorifies everything conservative. That's not what this book is about, but it is about as even handed as one could attempt. As opposed to what some of the reviewers claim, it is not Tom Brokaw's opinion of the 60's, it is interviews with those that were active participants in the 60's. That's what makes it so engrossing. Some thought things worked, some thought things didn't. The players are neither glorified nor condemned, they are simply given an avenue to tell their side of the story. Slant to the left....hardly. Those interviewed are as evenly divided as you could have in order to give a balanced view of what happened. Need an example, one chapter has Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, George McGovern, Gary Hart, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Pat Buchanan and Hillary Clinton. Looks like four lefties and four righties to me. The whole book follows this pattern. You'll emerge with a mixed opinion, and that's probably closer to how things really were.
 BUST! April 30, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
A more fitting rating would be a minus stars. A more fitting title would be "BUST! Great Democrats I Have Known".
Tom Brokaw has managed to write about all the Democrats he has met since the 1960's. His glowing memories of them and how they shaped our culture made me want to puke! From the drug laced hippies to the tax and spend elected officials, Brokaw tries to make them look as though they were heroes and the saviors of the country.
It is a slow, ponderous read that is better than any sleeping pill I have ever tried. After 140 pages, I had enough and have relegated it to the shelf.
Brokaw shows his lack of knowledge in several places. One more memorable foul-up was adding the word Congressional in front of The Medal of Honor. Congress has nothing to do with it.
"Boom" April 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The item arrived in near-perfect condition, and within a reasonable amount of time. The seller was helpful and professional in our email exchanges.
BOOM April 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must read as many of us were tied down with so much happening in the late boom years. Great to get the real skinny on what was going on around the U.S.
 Easy to Swallow Time Capsule March 30, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Brokaw's broad survey of the 60s is engaging but we get detailed biographies of Gingrich, Clinton and Cheney who we've all kept pretty good tabs on. Tom definately seems to have embraced some of the conservative talking points on the period. Those on the left are accountable for all ills of the like-minded, while the right gets a pass for the race-baiting, warmongering of the times. It would have been nice if he'd tracked down some soldier-spitting-on, flag-burners as they're invoked often enough. (And it was LBJ's signing the Civil Rights bill that cost the Democrats the White House and not simply the '68 convention's protestors.) The book's best when he turns it over to more uncelebrated subjects, particularily the combat vets and the civil rights activists.
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