Song of Brooklyn: An Oral History of America's Favorite Borough

By Marc Eliot

Book Overview

Song of Brooklyn gathers the oral testimony of nearly one hundred Brooklynites past and present, famous and unknown, about a mythic borough that is also an indisputably real place. These witnesses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767920147
• ISBN13: 9780767920148
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Broadway
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Shared Memories & a Little History

Contrary to the one review I read of this book, I loved it. I spend a good part of my childhood in 1950s Brooklyn, and this book made me remember why, though it has been over 50 years since I left, I still think of myself as a "Brooklyn Girl." I loved that the people interviewed were both famous and unknown, ordinary people like me. It took me back to many different aspects of my childhood and the origins of my Brooklyn pride. The last book that made me feel this way was Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Until Next Year. I highly recommend that, too.