{"product_id":"book-atk2","title":"A Long Way from Home","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Generation,\u003c\/i\u003e whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrom 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.  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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis 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. Randall dam along  the Missouri River.  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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Along 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Long Way from Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] love letter to the . . . people and places that enriched a ‘Tom Sawyer boyhood.’ Brokaw . . . has a knack for delivering quirky observations on small-town life. . . . Bottom line: Tom’s terrific.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Breezy and straightforward . . . much like the assertive TV newsman himself.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brokaw writes with disarming honesty.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brokaw evokes a sense of community, a pride of citizenship, and a confidence in American ideals that will impress his readers.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340970598704,"sku":"BDatk2","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/141060-atk2-Square.jpg?v=1734051976","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-atk2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}