01732cam a2200301 4500 601555270 TxAuBib 20220811120000.0 020913s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002031865 9780375759352 $12.95 0375759352 $12.95 (OCoLC)50645863 TxAuBib Brokaw, Tom. A Long Way From Home : Growing Up in the American Heartland / Tom Brokaw. First trade edition. New York : Random House, [2002] ©2002. xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. In a Long Way From Home. Tom Brokaw describes his childhood and youth in South Dakotas. and the people and places in the American Heartland of the 1940's and 1950's that continue to shape his life today. As he reflects on the American experience as he lived and observed it during the central decades of the twentieth century, Brokaw writes of his parents' lives during the Great Depression, his boyhood along the Missouri River, the happy days of his adolescence in Yankton, and his early years in broadcast journalism on the cusp of the turbulent 1960's. As he recounts his own American pilgrimage, Tom Brokaw also explores what brought him and so many Americans to lead lives a long way from home. yet forever affected by it. 20220811. Brokaw, Tom. Television news anchors United States Biography. Television journalists United States Biography. National characteristics, American. United States Social life and customs 20th century.