A conversation about America; Who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream
Random House
November 2011
On Sale: November 1, 2011
320 pages ISBN: 1400064589 EAN: 9781400064588 Kindle: B004N6364Y Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in
American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers
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?” Brokaw
writes. “Have we simply wandered off course, but only
temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided
that we’re 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, Brokaw weaves
together inspiring 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, Brokaw traces the exciting, unnerving 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, in The Time of Our Lives, Brokaw gives us, a
wise, honest, and wide-ranging book, a nourishing vision of
hopefulness in an age of dimished expectations.
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