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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Alan Alda and others. |
| 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 Millard (Mickey) Drexler got his street smarts and his first jobs, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel were urged to pursue science 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 Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs-experiences spanning six decades. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, the mornings on the Grand Concourse and afternoons in the halls of Bronx Science, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx-and of America-from the early twentieth century until today. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Successful people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Oral history -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Alda, Alan, 1936-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781427262370 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1427262373 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11801748 |
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