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Bezig met laden... Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis (editie 2018)door Sam Anderson (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkBoom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis door Sam Anderson
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) tenamouse67 | Oct 18, 2022 |   ) danieljensen | Oct 14, 2022 |  ) Ellen-Simon | Sep 10, 2022 | I received a copy of this book free from the publisher for review. ( ) fionaanne | Nov 11, 2021 | This is all compulsively readable and I often had difficulty putting it down. His feel for Oklahoma City is, overall, very good. He gets one thing wrong, though, and it's a pretty big thing: he equates OKC's downtown with life in the place as a whole. Yes, downtown was a moonscape during the seventies and eighties, and that wasn't a good thing. But life went on, pretty well, around the metro area. Yes, I wish that Jane Jacobs were in charge of America's city planning. Until that happens, though, entertainment and commercial life in general are going to follow the population and the money. Hence, those features of urban life began migrating northwestward, to the Northwest Expressway during the sixties, and further out to the Memorial Road corridor later, around the turn of the century. Otherwise, a great and memorable book, superbly written, and a joy to read. (  ) Big_Bang_Gorilla | Jan 15, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in the bizarre but momentous Land Run of 1889, when tens of thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsize ambitions and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team's 2012-13 season, when the Thunder's brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti's all-in gamble on the "Process"--the patient, methodical management style that framed the trade as the team's best hope for long-term greatness--kicked off a pivotal year in the city's history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball front man Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics"--
"A lively and introspective look into Oklahoma City, where colorful city officials business leaders, artists, and sports fans have turned an unassuming Southwestern city into a thriving metropolis with a dazzling basketball team"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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