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100 1 $aAnderson, Sam,$d1977-$eauthor.
245 10 $aBoom town :$bthe fantastical saga of Oklahoma city, its chaotic founding, its apocalyptic weather, its purloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis /$cSam Anderson.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCrown,$c[2018]
300 $axx, 427 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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520 $a"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"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A lively and introspective look into Oklahoma City, where colorful city officials business leaders, artists, and sports fans have turned an unassuming Southwestern city into a thriving metropolis with a dazzling basketball team"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aIncludes index.
651 0 $aOklahoma City (Okla.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aOklahoma City (Okla.)$xSocial life and customs.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball.$2bisacsh
651 4 $aOklahoma City (Okla.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 4 $aOklahoma City (Okla.)$xHistory.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iOnline version:$aAnderson, Sam, 1977- author.$tBoom town$dNew York : Crown, 2018$z9780804137324$w(DLC) 2018011488
852 00 $bglx$hF704.O41$iA53 2018