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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1125429" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>I apologize for offending.  My point was that the title is selective.  He would not have sold many books had it been titled "The Japanese Internment Camp Generation" or the "Hell Yeah We Nuked 'Em Generation".  I didn't read the book so I can't say as to whether Brokaw dealt with those issues, the J.Edgar Hoovers, or any of a myriad of black eyes on the period.  I just don't see how one can honestly tally up the good and bad of any generation and make such an obviously subjective statement and have people accept it as fact.  I think one would have to WANT to believe and quite frankly, there is nothing wrong with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>