Jonathan Mahler Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning 9780312424305

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Автор: Jonathan Mahler
Название: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
ISBN: 9780312424305
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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ISBN-10: 0312424302
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 356
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 21.03.2006
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 137 x 28
Основная тема: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Подзаголовок: 1977, baseball, politics, and the battle for the soul of a city
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Поставляется из: США
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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 Yorks 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 citys 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 Americas 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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, Jonathan Mahler