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The Bronx Is Burning (edit title/settings)

1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

by Jonathan Mahler (Author) (edit contributors)

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year   Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson.   A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx... read more

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ON the evening of July 3, 1976, some fifty thousand New Yorkers sat on blankets in Central Park's Sheep Meadow eating picnic dinners, drinking wine, waving red, white, and blue sparklers, and listening to Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic in a surging birthday concert for the United States of America.

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  1. Jonathan Mahler (Author)

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