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The Greatest Generation
Featured Article: The 20 Best History Audiobooks You Never Heard in School
While history is by definition the study of the past, no subject tells us more about the present, or is as exciting to follow in contemporary times. The range of subgenres within history writing is huge. Some authors cover a massive scope, while others zoom in to examine tiny, overlooked elements in a new way. Unlike your history class of old, these selections don’t demand memorization of names and dates. Read on for the best in our catalog.
Best Sellers
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The Fall of Richard Nixon
- A Reporter Remembers Watergate
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance89
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Story88
Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president. In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president...
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Just OK
- By Derek on 11-10-19
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The Fall of Richard Nixon
- A Reporter Remembers Watergate
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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Never Give Up
- A Prairie Family's Story
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance33
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Story33
In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century. “A spare, elegant masterpiece...
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Made me picture the experience very clearly.
- By Don on 07-05-24
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Never Give Up
- A Prairie Family's Story
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance59
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Story59
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as...
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boring survey of a generation
- By Andy on 01-01-08
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-06-07
- Language: English
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A Lucky Life Interrupted
- A Memoir of Hope
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance213
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Story212
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate...
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My favorite anchorman faces mortality
- By Fran Murphy on 05-23-15
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A Lucky Life Interrupted
- A Memoir of Hope
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-12-15
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
- Letters and Reflections
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall173
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Performance96
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Story96
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation. “When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War...
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Not for everyone
- By Sean on 03-17-04
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
- Letters and Reflections
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-29-01
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Overall903
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Performance705
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Story699
The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years. In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories...
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Why abridged?
- By MacGyver124 on 02-24-17
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The Greatest Generation
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-19-01
- Language: English
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The Time of Our Lives
- A conversation about America
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance98
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Story97
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness...
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A book for EVERY Generation - Funny & Insightful
- By Amanda on 11-16-11
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The Time of Our Lives
- A conversation about America
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-01-11
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
- Letters and Reflections
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
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Overall11
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Performance8
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Story8
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation. “When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War...
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
- Letters and Reflections
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-19-01
- Language: English
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An Album of Memories
- Personal Histories From the Greatest Generation
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance33
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Story33
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album...
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A heart touching story
- By Randall on 07-03-16
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An Album of Memories
- Personal Histories From the Greatest Generation
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-07-01
- Language: English
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A Long Way From Home
- Growing Up in the American Heartland
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance9
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Story8
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the...
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I Enjoyed It Very Much
- By Michele on 06-04-15
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A Long Way From Home
- Growing Up in the American Heartland
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-15-04
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Home
- Growing Up in the American Heartland
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall40
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Performance27
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Story27
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 years From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on...
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Ease
- By Glen Ernster on 06-01-24
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A Long Way from Home
- Growing Up in the American Heartland
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-22-02
- Language: English
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An Album of Memories
- Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Overall11
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Performance5
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Story5
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album...
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Wonderful
- By Carlos on 02-04-20
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An Album of Memories
- Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-07-01
- Language: English
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- By: Tom Brokaw
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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Overall26
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Performance8
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Story8
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as...
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all time favorite
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-10
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-06-07
- Language: English
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