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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks - Softcover
In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton delivers a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks part autobiography, part sports history, part epic, set against the tumultuous era when Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, and Bill Bradley reigned supreme in the world of basketball. Perfect for readers of Jeff Pearlman s The Bad Guys Won!, Peter Richmond s Badasses, and Pat Williams s Coach Wooden, Araton s revealing story of the Knicks heyday is far more than a review of one of basketball s greatest teams inspiring story it is, at heart, a stirring recreation of a time and place when the NBA championships defined the national dream. "
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Araton is the perfect writer for the job.... [ When the Garden was Eden] a must for basketball fans and a super-must for New York sports nuts. --Kirkus Reviews"
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The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and the country at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional basketball ever played. Paradise, for better or worse, was a hardwood court in Midtown Manhattan.
When the Garden Was Eden is the definitive account of how the New York Knickerbockers won their first and only championships, and in the process provided the nation no small escape from the Vietnam War, the tragedy at Kent State, and the last vestiges of Jim Crow.
In When the Garden Was Eden, Harvey Araton not only traces the history of New York’s beloved franchise—from Ned Irish to Spike Lee to Carmelo Anthony—but profiles the lives and careers of one of sports’ all-time great teams, the Old Knicks. From the Louisiana home of the Captain, Willis Reed; to the lush gardens of Walt “Clyde” Frazier’s St. Croix oasis; to the political office of Senator Bill Bradley, Araton relives their most glorious triumphs, bitter rivalries, and casts light on a time when the Garden, Madison Square, was its own sort of Eden.
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- PublisherHarperluxe
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0062088785
- ISBN 13 9780062088789
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages551
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