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Alda, Arlene, 1933-
Subjects
Successful people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Oral history -- New York (State) -- New York.
Children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Alda, Arlene, 1933-
Successful people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Oral history -- New York (State) -- New York.
Children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Just kids from the Bronx : telling it the way it was : an
oral
history
/ Arlene Alda.
by
Alda, Arlene, 1933-
Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Call #:
974.71 A357j
Subjects
Successful people
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Biography.
Oral
history
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
.
Children
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Social life and customs.
Bronx (
New
York
, N.Y.)
--
Biography.
New
York
(N.Y.)
--
Biography.
Bronx (
New
York
, N.Y.)
--
Social life and customs.
New
York
(N.Y.)
--
Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781627790956 (hc.)
Edition:
Forst edition.
Description:
xxi, 310 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The vivid
oral
histories in Arlene Alda's 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 other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs--experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today"--From publisher.
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