Sorry, Tom - I just didn’t have your gifts.Īnd you can’t go far on loads of sensitivity and intuition, with no street smarts.īut you know what? In the end, I learned that, as it turned out, I didn’t HAVE to go so far! There I was, a clumsy, ordinary kid trying to work wonders with my dozy little brain.Īway from home, I was the unhonoured recipient of many a Darwin Award and, for my pains, was served a steady diet of Humility Sandwiches with side orders of Embarrassment. Trouble is, I just didn’t have Ali’s quick reflexes or KO wallops. I was like Muhammad Ali, I was the Greatest. Just like Tom Brokaw’s darn-the-torpedoes parents, my Dad and Mom were card-carrying members of the Greatest Generation.īless them, they wanted their kids to be just like them.īeing the oldest, I was taught that I, too, had it in me to be Great. He still works at NBC as a Special Correspondent. As well as his television journalism, he has written for periodicals and has authored books. Throughout his career, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors.īrokaw serves on the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors and on the boards of trustees of the University of South Dakota, the Norton Simon Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the International Rescue Committee. Brokaw also hosted, wrote, and moderated special programs on a wide range of topics. In the later part of Tom Brokaw's tenure, NBC Nightly News became the most watched cable or broadcast news program in the United States. His last broadcast as anchorman was on December 1, 2004, succeeded by Brian Williams in a carefully planned transition. Thomas John Brokaw is an American television journalist and author, previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle class pleasures and good educations for their children.Īlong the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood, Brokaw writes and as he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded-from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond-he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ project building the Ft. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsįrom his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time.
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