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Title: Really, all this just to sell books
Review: Listen, I like Tom Brokaw as a journalist, but this book was such an obvious pander in order to sell books. It worked, he sold a lot of copies. By calling the WWII generation the "Greatest Generation", it gives anyone born within the general area the idea that they are great. Brokaw doesn't bother to make a distinction between the "GI Generation", or the people who actually marched off the war, fought a war, came home, built a middle class and thrived. And those of the "Silent Generation" who came a long a little later and were big on conformity in the 1950's, didn't suffer in the war or the Great Depression. I don't think just because you're old, you're great, and the author simply would not make the distinction in order to sell copies.
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