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Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis [PDF EPUB
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Boom Town: The
Fantastical Saga of
Oklahoma City, Its
Chaotic Founding...
Its Purloined
Basketball Team, and
the Dream of
Becoming a Worldclass
Metropolis [PDF
EPUB KINDLE]
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Amazon.com If Oklahoma City didnâ€t strike me as a place that would make a particularly
interesting subject of a 400-page “biography,― I probably wouldnâ€t be alone. Apologies to
every Oklahoman: Weâ€d all be wrong. Sam Andersonâ€s Boom Town is the story of the
cityâ€s quest to become a “world-class metropolis,― a biorhythmic cycle of booms and
busts from its Wild West 'Land Run' origins to its apocalyptic weather and the tragedy of the 1995
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The engine of the story is the Thunder, the
National Basketball Association franchise lifted from Seattle by a cadre of oilmen with the help of
henchman David Stern, then the leagueâ€s overweening commissioner. But you don't have to
be a basketball junkie to love this book (honestly though, it helps); its eccentric and often
iconoclastic cast of characters—including Wayne Coyne (the tirelessly weird frontman of the
Flaming Lips), 'Holy Chief Meteorologist and Severe Weather Savior' Gary England, and a host of
civic movers-and-shakers of varying integrity—keeps Anderson's unconventional 'biography' fastpaced,
fun, and unpredictable—much like the team the Thunder became in the years after the
move. Hopefully it will be just as popular. --Jon Foro, Amazon Book Review Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN
NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE“[Anderson] has discovered a
subject that energizes him the way a birch-bark canoe roused John McPhee, the way a French
meal stoked M.F.K. Fisher and the way a burning Bronx fired up Jonathan Mahler… Unlike navelgazing
yappers like Hunter S. Thompson, Anderson doesnâ€t splatter himself all over the story.
He never drowns out anyone with his sly, entertaining voice. His sensibility, sophisticated though it
may be, is generous enough to stand up and offer its seat to others… For all of the surrealism in
[Franz Kafkaâ€s Oklahoma-set] Amerika, whose runic metaphysics helped give rise to the

adjective ‘Kafkaesque,†the manuscript doesnâ€t begin to match the genuinely American
phantasmagoria of Boom Town. Whatâ€s most surreal about Oklahoma City, as brilliantly
rendered in Andersonâ€s wild and gusty history, is that this city is for real.― —THE NEW
YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“[Boom Town is a] dizzyingly pleasurable new history of
Oklahoma City. If ‘dizzyingly pleasurable†and ‘Oklahoma City†arenâ€t words you
expect to see in the same sentence, Andersonâ€s book wants to convince you that the capital of
Americaâ€s forty-sixth state is the most secretly fascinating place on earth… Itâ€s a
peculiarly concentrated locus of old American energies, creative, destructive, and bizarre, and
Anderson illuminates both the romance and the hubris of a city that went from wild gunfights to
unrestrained freeways in a single human lifetime… Boom Town is a dazzling urban history…
Anderson writes beautifully about the human beings h