Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Cover
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Boom Town The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

Sam Anderson

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson 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 bo...

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

The speaker greatly enjoyed the audiobook and found it so good that they felt the need to read a hard copy as well.

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Oh, it's a phenomenal book, right? I told I there's it's been on it's insane. I was I did the audio book.

— Episode: Ep 366 - He's Back

Episode: Ep 366 - He's Back

The speaker greatly enjoyed the audiobook and found it so good that they felt the need to read a hard copy as well.

"

Oh, it's a phenomenal book, right? I told I there's it's been on it's insane. I was I did the audio book.

I was like, it doesn't it was like, you know, writer stuff to the pros. So I was unbelievable. So good. I was like, bro, I got to I have to my eyes have to see this.

Yeah, I got to do it. I was I was like, it was the audio form was flying by me and I was like, I got to see that my eyes have to see that on the page.

Dude, I'm telling you, pause the audio book and say, I'm an audio. I'm like, I can listen anything. I was like my eyes have to grace. He's on the paper, dude. I was like, this is good.

99% Invisible

The podcast host highly praised the book, deeming it one of the best pieces of narrative nonfiction he'd read recently. It explored the unique and chaotic founding of Oklahoma City.

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The book is called Boomtown, and it's one of my favorite things I've read in the past year.

— Episode: The Worst Way to Start a City

Episode: The Worst Way to Start a City

The podcast host highly praised the book, deeming it one of the best pieces of narrative nonfiction he'd read recently. It explored the unique and chaotic founding of Oklahoma City.

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The book is called Boomtown, and it's one of my favorite things I've read in the past year.

I think it'll go down in history as one of the great pieces of narrative nonfiction actually.

The full title of Sam Anderson's book is Boomtown, the fantastical saga of Oklahoma City, its chaotic founding, its apocalyptic weather, its porloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis. It is truly great. Go get it.

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