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  1. 9781429931038. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City is a book by Jonathan Mahler that focuses on the year 1977 in New York City. First published in 2005, it's described as 'a layered account', 'kaleidoscopic', 'a braided narrative', which weaves political, cultural, and ...

    • Jonathan Mahler
    • History
    • 2005
    • 368
  2. Mar 21, 2006 · Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the basis of the 2007 ESPN miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson.

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    • Jonathan Mahler
    • $15.39
    • Picador
  3. Apr 24, 2005 · LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BRONX IS BURNING 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City. By Jonathan Mahler. Illustrated. 356 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25.

  4. Apr 24, 2005 · It was a forest of masts and sails, "an unbroken bridge of small craft that reached from the shores of Brooklyn to the coast of New Jersey," as the lead story in Monday's New York Times described ...

  5. Apr 1, 2005 · The city was in a fiscal crisis, with doom, ruin, and Rupert Murdoch pressing forward. There were subway strikes, garbage strikes, and job actions by the city’s finest—the police. President Gerald Ford, according to the headlines, invited the metropolis to drop dead. An emergent gay scene, punk rock, Studio 54 (“a fifty-four-hundred ...

  6. Jan 1, 2005 · Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning brings readers back to 1977 and reads like a thriller. With steamy pages that have readers on the edge of their seats, the book leant itself to become a Netflix series, that I’m intrigued to watch. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning became the perfect read for the dog days of August. 3.75 stars

  7. The Bronx Is Burning (stylized as The Bronx is Burning) is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 10, 2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahler's best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning. The book focuses on baseball's triumph over the turmoil and ...

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