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Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-101609492730
ISBN-139781609492731
eBay Product ID (ePID)144046708
Product Key Features
Book TitleBrooklyn's Sportsmen's Row: : Politics, Society and the Sporting Life on Northern Eighth Avenue
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Sociology of Sports, History, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorLucas G. Rubin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-041412
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal796.09747/1
SynopsisIn an era when horse racing reigned supreme and Brooklyn was at its very center, a remarkable collection of turf legends came to reside along one small stretch of northern Eighth Avenue in the exclusive neighborhood of Park Slope. Here, along Sportsmen's Row, the lives of the sportsmen and those of their neighbors--men of prominence and distinction in theater, law, industry and politics--came together in surprising and unexpected ways. Though the public saw a block dominated by the celebrities of the age, behind the closed doors of Sportsmen's Row a more subtle narrative played itself out: of infidelity, gambling, excess and--fame aside--a world strictly ordered and preordained by social class.