Author:
Publisher: HISTREE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
SMITH'S FIRST DIRECTORY of OKLAHOMA TERRITORY For the Year Commencing August 1st, 1890
Author:
Publisher: HISTREE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Publisher: HISTREE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Directory Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Boom Town
Author: Sam Anderson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
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.
Patterson's American Educational Directory
Author: Homer L. Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Indians in Oklahoma
Author: Rennard Strickland
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806116754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Outlines the lifestyle of the Indians in Oklahoma and their value system despite the white-man's encroachment of their land and widespread stereotyping.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806116754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Outlines the lifestyle of the Indians in Oklahoma and their value system despite the white-man's encroachment of their land and widespread stereotyping.
Directory and Manual of the State of Oklahoma
Author: Oklahoma. State Election Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Kelly's Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 2944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 2944
Book Description
The Standard Medical Directory of North America, 1903-4
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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