A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties - Softcover

"[A] love letter to the...people and places that enriched a 'Tom Sawyer boyhood.' Brokaw...has a knack for delivering quirky observations on small-town life....Bottom line: Tom's terrific."
--People

"Breezy and straightforward...much like the assertive TV newsman himself."
--Los Angeles Times

"Brokaw writes with disarming honesty."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Brokaw evokes a sense of community, a pride of citizenship, and a confidence in American ideals that will impress his readers."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch

The television journalist and best-selling author of The Greatest Generation describes life growing up in the heart of the American Midwest and his early journalism career in the 1960s, reflecting on the people, places, culture, and values that shaped him and continues to shape him today. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.