Boom Town
Title | Boom Town PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Anderson |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 513 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804137323 |
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.
O is for Oklahoma
Title | O is for Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-04-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0882409522 |
See-My-State Alphabet Books have a subject related to that specific state for each letter of the alphabet. Children from schools or Boys & Girls Clubs in each state write the rhyming couplet for each subject. The book project is an opportunity for each participating child to learn to express themselves in writing, learn meter and rhyming skills, and become a "published person" in a real book. The back of f the book is a section called "Who Knew" which gives a brief description of the facts and importance of each subject chosen for each letter of the alphabet. It is written by the editors. Each child is acknowledged by name for their contribution.
The Story of Oklahoma
Title | The Story of Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | W. David Baird |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806126500 |
Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history
The Indians in Oklahoma
Title | The Indians in Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Rennard Strickland |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806116754 |
Outlines the lifestyle of the Indians in Oklahoma and their value system despite the white-man's encroachment of their land and widespread stereotyping.
This Land Is Herland
Title | This Land Is Herland PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Eppler Janda |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 410 |
Release | 2021-07-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806178590 |
Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This Land Is Herland brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present. Organized chronologically, the essays discuss Progressive reformer Kate Barnard, educator and civil rights leader Clara Luper, and Comanche leader and activist LaDonna Harris, as well as lesser-known individuals such as Cherokee historian and educator Rachel Caroline Eaton, entrepreneur and NAACP organizer California M. Taylor, and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) champion Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton. Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, the collection connects Oklahoma women’s individual and collective endeavors to the larger themes of intersectionality, suffrage, politics, motherhood, and civil rights in the American West and the United States. The historians explore how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and political power shaped—and were shaped by—these women’s efforts to improve their local, state, and national communities. Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Oklahoma
Title | The Twelve Days of Christmas in Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Tammi Sauer |
Publisher | Union Square Kids |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Board books |
ISBN | 9781454929659 |
"Take a fun holiday trip to Oklahoma! As each of the twelve days of Christmas pass, VERY unusual gifts from around the state pile up. Lucky readers are in for a wild countdown!'--From page 4 of cover
Weird Oklahoma
Title | Weird Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Wesley Treat |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | 9781402754364 |
A collection of stories from all over the state of Oklahoma, relating some of the state's strange and unexplained phenomena.