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Search - Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

Boom Town The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City Its Chaotic Founding Its Purloined Basketball Team and the Dream of Becoming a Worldclass Metropolis
Author: Sam Anderson

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 — NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPIN — 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 ... more »was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous ?Land Run? in 1889, when 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 outsized 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 dictated 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, former book critic for New York magazine and now 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 frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; 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.

ISBN-13: 9780804137331
ISBN-10: 0804137331
Publication Date: 8/20/2019
Pages: 448
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Broadway Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 4
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History >> Americas >> United States >> State & Local
Sports & Outdoors >> Basketball
Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> Urban

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