Just kids from the Bronx, telling it the way it was : an oral history, Arlene Alda
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Just kids from the Bronx, telling it the way it was : an oral history, Arlene Alda
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eng
resource.biographical
collective biography
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mapsillustrations
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Just kids from the Bronx
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881041971
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Arlene Alda
Sub title
telling it the way it was : an oral history
Summary
A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs through some of its many success stories. The vivid oral histories in Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food --for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many others"--, Provided by publisher
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1. FRESH AIR...A LUCKY BREAK -- A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal -- Carl Reiner -- Martin Bregman -- Leon Fleisher -- Lawrence Saper -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Jules Feiffer -- David Yarnell -- Milton Glaser -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus -- Regis Philbin -- George Shapiro & Howard West -- Mark Cash -- Arlene Alda -- Michael Brescia -- Emanuel (Manny) Azenberg -- Avery Corman -- I.C. (Chuck) Rapoport -- Colin Powell -- Lloyd Ultan -- Dion DiMucci -- Barbara Nessim -- 2. I SAY IT'S THE TEACHERS...DESTINY -- Al Pacino -- Robert F. Levine -- Suzanne Braun Levine -- Steve Janowitz -- Margaret M. O'Brien, S.C. -- Joyce Hansen -- Robert Klein -- Julian Schlossberg -- Anonymous -- Rick Meyerowitz -- Joel Arthur Rosenthal (JAR) -- Millard (Mickey) S. Drexler -- Andy Rosenzweig -- Kenneth S. Davidson -- Daniel Libeskind -- Valerie Simpson -- Arthur Klein -- Dava Sobel -- Robert F.X. Sillerman -- Maira Kalman -- 3. ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS, WE PRINT...THE GIFT IN THE RIVER -- Sam Goodman -- Chazz Palminteri -- Daniel Hauben -- Louise Sedotto -- Steve Jordan -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Michael R. Kay -- Melvin Glover (Grandmaster Melle Mel) -- Jaime (Jimmy) Rodriguez, Jr. -- Luis A. Ubiñas -- Bobby Bonilla -- Wilfredo Feliciano, Hector Nazerio, & Sotero Ortiz (Tats Cru) -- Majora Carter -- Carlos J. Serrano -- Renee Hernandez -- Ruben Diaz, Jr. -- Jemina R. Bernard -- Amar Ramasar -- Gabrielle Salvatto -- Erik Zeidler -- BIOGRAPHIES
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