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Author |
: Sam Anderson |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2018-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804137324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804137323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boom Town by : Sam Anderson
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City 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.
Author |
: Jeff Provine |
Publisher |
: Reedy Press LLC |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2021-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681063362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681063360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secret Oklahoma City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by : Jeff Provine
Oklahoma City was called “A City Born Grown” after it went from a population of a handful at Oklahoma Depot to over 10,000 on its first day. Nobody seems to mention how the streets were laid crooked and took 80 years to fix by tearing up half of downtown and that two rival city governments aimed guns at one another until the Supreme Court sorted out who was in charge. And that was only its first six months! Secret Oklahoma City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure shares the places and stories that you won’t hear in History class, though you probably should! Learn about the Chinese Tunnels that housed hundreds of immigrant workers underground. Visit the Overholser Mansion and see if the lady of the house is still in, sixty years after her death! Gain new respect for animal heroes at the American Pigeon Museum. Find out what a giant milk bottle is doing on top of an old grocery store off 23rd. Speaking of groceries, did you know the grocery cart was invented on the south side of town? Or that the parking meter got its start in downtown Oklahoma City? Oklahoma farm kid-turned-professor Jeff Provine has spent more than a decade learning the lesserknown tales of OKC. Come with him on a tour of the unexpected side of Oklahoma City.
Author |
: Andrew Gumbel |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 2012-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062100924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062100920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oklahoma City by : Andrew Gumbel
In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly after 9:00 A.M., the bomb obliterated one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 infants and toddlers. McVeigh claimed he'd worked only with Nichols, and at least officially, the government believed him. But McVeigh's was just one version of events. And much of it was wrong. In Oklahoma City, veteran investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day—one that has persisted in the minds of the American public for nearly two decades. Working with unprecedented access to government documents, a voluminous correspondence with Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews with those immediately involved, Gumbel and Charles demonstrate how much was missed beyond the guilt of the two principal defendants: in particular, the dysfunction within the country's law enforcement agencies, which squandered opportunities to penetrate the radical right and prevent the bombing, and the unanswered question of who inspired the plot and who else might have been involved. To this day, the FBI heralds the Oklahoma City investigation as one of its great triumphs. In reality, though, its handling of the bombing foreshadowed many of the problems that made the country vulnerable to attack again on 9/11. Law enforcement agencies could not see past their own rivalries and underestimated the seriousness of the deadly rhetoric coming from the radical far right. In Oklahoma City, Gumbel and Charles give the fullest, most honest account to date of both the plot and the investigation, drawing a vivid portrait of the unfailingly compelling—driven, eccentric, fractious, funny, and wildly paranoid—characters involved.
Author |
: David Hoffman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047085124 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror by : David Hoffman
THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR An in-depth analysis of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in April 1995 in which 169 people died. Reveals government malfeasance, possible cover-ups and much of the content was used in a Grand Jury investigation into the bombing. The most important publication on the worst terrorist act in american history.
Author |
: Mick Cornett |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399575105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399575103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Next American City by : Mick Cornett
From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years. Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America . . . and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country," Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places-and it is not alone. In this book, Cornett translates his city's success-and the success of cities like his-into a vision for the future of our country. The Next American City is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It is a study of the changes re-shaping American urban life-and a blueprint for those to come.
Author |
: Greg Hoetker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2019-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0578556650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780578556659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Leg in Oklahoma City by : Greg Hoetker
"No one can say this story is not true." So begins this novel, a work that took more than 20 years to conceive, research, and write. A story of love, pain, and memory, this novel also attempts to solve a loose-threaded mystery trailing like a fuse behind one of the greatest domestic acts of terrorism in American history--the epicenter of which was, and still is, the heartland of Oklahoma City.
Author |
: Jeff Provine and Tanya McCoy |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781467136815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1467136816 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Haunted Oklahoma City by : Jeff Provine and Tanya McCoy
Oklahoma City boasts a rich heritage of gumption and perseverance, but there are many tales only whispered from shadows. A spectral woman may be seen in the upper window of the Overholser Mansion, looking for her long-lost love. The spirit of one of Oklahoma's feistiest leaders is said to dwell in the Governor's Mansion, where he trips guests on the stairs. Perhaps still thirsty for the drink a fatal gunshot interrupted, the ghost of a cheating mobster rattles the glasses at Gabriella's off Route 66. Jeff Provine and Tanya McCoy uncover the curious and creepy tales of the Sooner State capital.
Author |
: Jean Stover |
Publisher |
: Strategic Book Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 91 |
Release |
: 2010-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608609246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608609243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sirloin Stockade Slaughter by : Jean Stover
On June 22, 1978, Melvin Lorenz, his wife, Linda, and son, Richard, were killed near Purcell, Oklahoma. Twenty-four days later, on July 16, six employees of a Sirloin Stockade Restaurant in southwest Oklahoma City were herded into a freezer and shot to death. Hundreds of law enforcement members worked for eight months to track down the killers. In October and November 1979, Roger Dale Stafford was convicted of first degree murder of nine people. However, he was not executed until 1995. This murder story coming from the heart of Oklahoma deserves to be told. It includes the behind-the-scenes perspective of law enforcement officers involved.
Author |
: William F. Kerr |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 616 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89072940869 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by : William F. Kerr
Author |
: Bradley Wynn |
Publisher |
: Imaginary Lines, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0738583812 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780738583815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oklahoma City by : Bradley Wynn
Located in downtown Oklahoma City, Film Row once flourished as a sales hub for theater owners needing films, posters, and concessions for their Midwest venues. The film exchange offices along this three-square-block area and across the cityscape housed major film production studios like Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal, Fox, and Warner Brothers from 1907 until the 1980s. But changes in demographics, economy, and technology nearly wiped their memory from the city landscape. Now these decades-old structures and their nearly forgotten history are being rediscovered and utilized once again for business. This book tells their story through rare images discovered in shoeboxes, back rooms, and the Oklahoma Historical Society's archives. Most of the images within these pages are shared here for the very first time.