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Introduction: What Was That All About? xiii
Something's Happening Here 1
A Loss of Innocence 3
He Had a Dream 39
Representative John Lewish and Julian Bond 47
Reverend Andrew Young 55
Tom Turnipseed 62
Reverend Thomas Gilmore 69
The Fracture of 1968: The Noisy Masses versus the Silent Majority 79
Jeff Greenfield and Sam Brown 84
Mayor Richard M. Daley and William Daley 103
Pat Buchanan 110
A Place Called Vietnam 127
We Had to Destroy the Village: Captain Gene Kimmel and Dr. Les Gelb 128
Married to Vietnam: Tom and Nellie Coakley 141
Oh, Canada: Jeffry House 155
Semper Fi: Senator James Webb, Mike "Mac" McGarvey, and James Fallows 163
A Woman's Place 189
Nora Ephron 197
Gloria Steinem 203
Joan Growe 208
Muriel Kraszewski 214
Dr. Judith Rodin 218
Carla Hills and Joan Didion 224
Lissa Muscatine 232
Something's Happening Here 241
Dr. David Smith 243
Judy Collins 249
Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert 253
Jann Wenner 259
Kris Kristofferson 262
Berry Gordy 267
Woody Miller 275
Aftershocks: Consequences, Intended and Otherwise 283
A Dream Fulfilled and a Dream Deferred 287
Charlene Stimley Priester and Ouida Barnett Atkins 297
Stan Sanders 310
Dr Shelby Steele 319
Dr. Cleveland Sellers 329
The Reagan Revolution and the Democrats' Identity Crisis 339
President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich 341
Senator George McGovern and Senator Gary Hart 359
Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney 369
Pat Buchanan and Senator Hillary Clinton 393
Second Thoughts and the Long View 406
Sam Brown 406
Jeremy Larner 408
Carl Pope 409
Ed Crane 417
Dolores Huerta 421
The War Without End 429
David Cadwell 431
General Colin Powell 435
General Wayne Downing 440
Senator John McCain 447
Senator Bob Kerrey 452
Senator Chuck Hagel 460
Dr. Charles Desmond 465
Ron Armella 469
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Peter Davis 474
I Am Woman 481
Jane Pauley 486
Anne Taylor Fleming 494
Linda Greenhouse 498
Dorothy Rabinowitz 502
Dr. Ruth Simmons 505
Dr. Susan Miller 510
Like a Rolling Stone 515
James Taylor 517
Paul Simon 523
Jann Wenner 530
Warren Beatty 532
Lawrence Kasdan 535
Lorne Michaels 541
Dick Gregory 548
Tommy Smothers 552
Leonard Riggio 554
Reflections: Seeing What Connects 563
The View from the Moon 565
Garry Trudeau 568
Other Voices 570
Joan Baez and Don McLean 579
Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins 586
Jack Weinberg 591
Stewart Brand 597
Captain Jim Lovell 605
Acknowledgments 613
Timeline 617
Permissions and Credits 623
Index 629
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Karthikeyan Ramanathan
reviewed Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today on November 29, 2019
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
2.5 stars rounded up.
This is an interesting but not compelling book about the 1960s. Tom Brokaw interviews a number of famous and not so famous people about their experiences in the 1960s. It is Brokaw's premise that the decade of the 60s had an inordinate effect on the decades that followed. Sometimes I could see his point; other times his trying to show the lasting effects of a particular occurrence or trend was a real stretch. He discusses civil rights, politics, Vietnam, women's rights and popular music. In the first section, he discusses what happened; in the second section he discusses the repercussions and the third section, how it all is connected. Oddly, the last section has a chapter entitled "The View from the Moon", yet he barely covers the space race and how we freaking landed on the moon!
Some sections and interviews are fascinating; others are mind numbing. After 300 pages, I found myself skimming a lot, then slowing down to read something that caught my interest. The book comes with a dvd which has excerpts from a TV special "1968 with Tom Brokaw". I haven't watched it yet, but I will.
After watching Brokaw on TV for years, I could hear his voice narrating the book as I read it. There is also a lot about his own life in the book, and how he experienced the 60s. As he interviews people, you never quite know how he feels about what they are saying, if he agrees or disagrees, which is disappointing. I would have liked a little less objectivity and some more personalization in the book.
I was just a kid in the 60s, and so reading parts of this book gave me a more adult perspective on what happened. The 60s were an extremely emotional decade, what with a series of assassinations, an unpopular war, political upheaval and a counter culture movement occurring in a short period of time, capped by a moon landing. This book is almost devoid of emotion which betrays the essence of the decade. It is a dry, intellectual evaluation of a time that was anything but.
I learned some things, but overall, I found the book to be disappointing.
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