Christopher Harper

Flyover Country (eBook, PDF)

Baby Boomers and Their Stories

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas. Many of these people have made significant contributions to their communities as business owners, doctors, lawyers, ministers, politicians, and teachers. Many have suffered through tough times, losing their way due to alcohol or drugs or facing family crises from divorce to the death of a spouse or a child. The story also is Harper's story. It is the story of a kid from flyover country who used what he learned in the Midwest to travel throughout the world as a journalist and then as a college professor to try to teach those lessons to his students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761885474
• Artikelnr.: 75137351

Autorenporträt

Christopher Harper is an associate professor of journalism at Temple University. He worked as a reporter for more than twenty years for the Associated Press, Newsweek, and ABC News in more than fifty countries. He lives in Moravia, New York, with his wife, Elizabeth, and his daughter, Cecylia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter One: Growing Up
Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Glory Days?
Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Moving On
Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Working
Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Family
Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Hard Times
Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Believing
Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: The Class of 2009
Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Reflections from Forty Years Ago and Forty Years
Apart
Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: One More Time with Feeling
Chapter 12 Bibliography