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The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids From Bronx reveal what it was like to expand up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's Millard (Mickey) Drexler got his avenue smarts and his first careers, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel were urged to go after technology and where music-making encouraged hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to improve the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up game titles, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food - for folks who grew up in the Bronx, youth recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx recollections were a jumping-off point that to reminisce with a nun, a officer, an urban planner, and with Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, and many other leading artists, sportsmen, scientists and business owners - experiences spanning six ages. Alda then established these pieces of days gone by, the mornings on the Grand Concourse and afternoons in the halls of Bronx Technology, into one great collective account, a film-like portrait of the Bronx - and of America - from the first 20th hundred years until today.
