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Tom Brokaw: Discusses his new book about Booomers

Hillary Clinton had a question when Tom Brokaw told her he was working on a book on the 1960s.

"Have you cracked the code yet?" she asked.

Such is the legacy of that exuberant, violent, messy decade, a time in which American social and political leaders were shot to death, youth did battle with adults literally and figuratively, and a war 6,000 miles away divided the country in ways that continue to resonate more than 40 years later....

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