Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections and Lessons for Today by Tom Brokaw
This book was recommended to me by my Aunt Jai, my mom’s sister. Without revealing just how young she is, I know through several conversations we’ve had that she has an intimate understanding of the decade and of the revolutionary changes that altered the lives of the generation directly above my own. Like the first book I chose to read, due to its relationship to the President-elect, I thought it would be interesting to read a history of the sixties now that – for the first time – we’ve elected someone who was only nine when the decade ended and was not directly involved in the major events of the period. He is, after all, the first major presidential candidate in some time about whom we haven’t had to wonder what he did during the Vietnam War and whether he behaved patriotically enough.
It is in some way disturbing to think of the lack of education on the sixties that I grew up with. (more…)
