Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball by Sam Anderson | Conversation Starters

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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball by Sam Anderson | Conversation Starters

Oklahoma City is a place "born from chaos" and one of the "great weirdo cities of the world." Oklahoma's basketball team Thunder is likened to the city's wild ambition and energy. Author Sam Anderson mixes historical writing with sports journalism, urban tales and studies, memoirs of idiosyncratic personalities, and geographical descriptions to describe this quirky city. Fascinating characters people his stories including NBA players Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, the holy meteorologist Gary England, and the Flaming Lips eccentric frontman Wayne Coyne. 
Boom Town is written by Anderson, the multi-awarded journalist, and writer for New York Times Magazine. He is a winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Mar 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9788832560176

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Introducing Boom Town

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis is the debut book of journalist Sam Anderson. It is the story of Oklahoma City, a place described by Anderson as born from chaos and one of the great weirdo cities of the world. The author tells the story of its bizarre founding which happened in 1889 during the famous Land Run. Thousands of the city's soon-to-be residents lined up at the borders of the Oklahoma Territory and at the strike of 12 noon run in to claim their own land. Not the ideal city that many would like it to be but just like any other city, it's one that has its own excesses, illusions, imbalances, tragedies, and insecurities. The author tells the story of Oklahoma's basketball team Thunder which is likened to the city's wild ambition and energy. The basketball team's rise is closely tied to the city's politics, economics, history, and weather. Even the