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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City Paperback - 2006
by Mahler, Jonathan
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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.
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- Title Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- Author Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-03-21
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00B06K_ns
- ISBN 9780312424305 / 0312424302
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004016804
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.704
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ON the evening of July 3, 1976, some fifty thousand New Yorkers sat on blankets in Central Park's Sheep Meadow eating picnic dinners, drinking wine, waving red, white, and blue sparklers, and listening to Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic in a surging birthday concert for the United States of America.
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Citations
- New York Times, 05/07/2006, Page 32