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The Bronx is Burning
The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson. A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx Is Burning is the story of two epic battles: the fight between Yankee Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch for the city's mayorship. Buried beneath these parallel conflicts--one for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the city--was the subtext of race. Deftly intertwined by journalist Jonathan Mahler, these braided Big Apple narratives reverberate to reveal a year that also saw the opening of Studio 54, the acquisition of the New York Post by Rupert Murdoch, a murderer dubbed the "Son of Sam," the infamous blackout, and the evolution of punk rock. As Koch defeated Cuomo, and as Reggie Jackson rescued a team racked with dissension, 1977 became a year of survival--and also of hope.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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Ed Koch - Mario Cuomo - Martin - Reggie - Steinbrenner - Rupert Murdoch - Son of Sam - disco - punk - ConEd - the Blackout - Bushwick - the Concorde ... it‘s astounding the number of things that happened in NYC in 1977 that laid the foundation for years to come. Mahler does a commendable job of weaving them all together in this thorough narrative of this time and place in American history.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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Oh my ... NYC in the 70s was insane 😱

Tonton Ford to city: drop dead was a memorable headline! It was a crazy time. It was bad, mad, and dangerous but exciting. 6y
Sweettartlaura Wow @tonton 😮. I grew up an hour or so north of NYC. But at the time being covered so far, I either wasn‘t alive, or I was a baby. So I have zero recollection of this version of NYC. So far it is fascinating. I am old enough to still remember when Times Square was still littered with peep shows, adult bookstores, etc. When I started college, they were prevalent. By the time I graduated, they were gone - they just disappeared 1 by 1. 6y
Sweettartlaura And PS - that headline from Ford is discussed at this time, too! 6y
Tonton @sweettartlaura 42nd Street is so sanitized now. I used to live on the Upper West Side and then Tribeca...glory days and nights. Now I‘m very sedate and live in Tokyo. NYC is forever ‘the city‘ in my heart. 6y
cariashley My dad was a firefighter in the south Bronx in the 70s and his stories are insane!! 6y
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The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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#hopintospring #homerun

The Yankees, the Son of Sam and a contentious mayoral race make for an explosive summer in the Bronx in 1977.

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Cinfhen Oooh!! #stacked (edited) 7y
mrp27 @Cinfhen I haven't read it yet, hope it's good. This is another book I kept from my dads library. 7y
Cinfhen hopefully one of us will get to it... 7y
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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My personal book fairy struck again, leaving yet another of my TBR books in my building‘s laundry room. I left a note this time 🙂
#howimakefriends #bookclub

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City | Jonathan Mahler
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A last minute #funphotofriday about sports! Folks, this book is amazing. It's a fantastic story of sports and cultural history - paralleling the early Reggie Jackson Yankees era with the combative Cuomo-Koch mayoral race and the terrifying Son of Sam murders. That's just the main story, as Mahler weaves many others through this amazing story of Bad Old New York. #gobosox #gocavs

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Zelma I think Nick Hornby recommended this one in his column and it's been on my radar ever since. Moving it up the TBR list! 8y
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