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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan Mahler 2006 SC
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780312424305
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312424302
ISBN-13
9780312424305
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47856393
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning : 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Baseball / General, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Ambitiously conceived, marvelously told . . . Mahler weaves several stories into one grand narrative of the city's death and rebirth. . . . It all comes back, in living color . . . a tour de force."--The New York Times "Entertaining and illuminating . . . It should not be surprising then that Mahler . . . believed a layered account of a single year in the life of the city, 1977, could sustain a book--nor should it be surprising that he was right. . . . A nuanced portrait of this wild year."--The New York Times Book Review(front cover) "A rich canvas . . . an excellent new book."--Sports Illustrated "Compulsively readable . . . Mahler's innocently emblematic figures careen vividly through their historical moment."--The Wall Street Journal, "Ambitiously conceived, marvelously told . . . Mahler weaves several stories into one grand narrative of the city's death and rebirth. . . . It all comes back, in living color . . . a tour de force."-- The New York Times "Entertaining and illuminating . . . It should not be surprising then that Mahler . . . believed a layered account of a single year in the life of the city, 1977, could sustain a book--nor should it be surprising that he was right. . . . A nuanced portrait of this wild year."-- The New York Times Book Review (front cover) "A rich canvas . . . an excellent new book."-- Sports Illustrated "Compulsively readable . . . Mahler's innocently emblematic figures careen vividly through their historical moment."-- The Wall Street Journal, "Ambitiously conceived, marvelously told . . . Mahler weaves several stories into one grand narrative of the city's death and rebirth. . . . It all comes back, in living color . . . a tour de force." -- The New York Times "Entertaining and illuminating . . . It should not be surprising then that Mahler . . . believed a layered account of a single year in the life of the city, 1977, could sustain a book--nor should it be surprising that he was right. . . . A nuanced portrait of this wild year." -- The New York Times Book Review (front cover) "A rich canvas . . . an excellent new book." -- Sports Illustrated "Compulsively readable . . . Mahler's innocently emblematic figures careen vividly through their historical moment." -- The Wall Street Journal, "Ambitiously conceived, marvelously told . . . Mahler weaves several stories into one grand narrative of the city's death and rebirth. . . . It all comes back, in living color . . . a tour de force."--William Grimes, The New York Times "Entertaining and illuminating . . . It should not be surprising then that Mahler . . . believed a layered account of a single year in the life of the city, 1977, could sustain a book--nor should it be surprising that he was right. . . . A nuanced portrait of this wild year."--The New York Times Book Review (front cover) "A rich canvas . . . an excellent new book."--Sports Illustrated "Compulsively readable . . . Mahler's innocently emblematic figures careen vividly through their historical moment."--The Wall Street Journal, Entertaining and illuminating . . . It should not be surprising then that Mahler . . . believed a layered account of a single year in the life of the city, 1977, could sustain a book--nor should it be surprising that he was right. . . . A nuanced portrait of this wild year., Compulsively readable . . . Mahler's innocently emblematic figures careen vividly through their historical moment., Ambitiously conceived, marvelously told . . . Mahler weaves several stories into one grand narrative of the city's death and rebirth. . . . It all comes back, in living color . . . a tour de force.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
974.7/043
Synopsis
A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods., A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods. By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam." And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York's history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city's mayoralty. Buried beneath these parallel conflicts--one for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the city--was the subtext of race. The brash and confident Jackson took every black myth and threw it back in white America's face. Meanwhile, Koch and Cuomo ran bitterly negative campaigns that played upon urbanites' fears of soaring crime and falling municipal budgets. These braided stories tell the history of a year that saw the opening of Studio 54, the evolution of punk rock, and the dawning of modern SoHo. As the pragmatist Koch defeated the visionary Cuomo and as Reggie Jackson finally rescued a team racked with dissension,1977 became a year of survival but also of hope. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the basis of the 2007 ESPN miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson.
LC Classification Number
E743.5
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