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"Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in the bizarre but momentous Land Run of 1889, when tens of 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 outsize ambitions and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2019Crown · 448 pages · 9780804137331
- Other · English · 2018Crown · 448 pages · 9780804137317
Social life and customsHistoryNew York Times reviewedSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / UrbanSPORTS & RECREATION / BasketballOklahoma City (Okla.)Oklahoma city (okla.)Oklahoma, history