Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most heterogeneous and alive borough.
For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our greatest city. From Jonas Bronck, who bought land from the local Native Americans, to the formerly gang-wracked South Bronx that gave birth to hip-hop, Frazier's loving exploration is a moving tour de force about the polyglot culture that is America today.
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Become an affiliate"Frazier loves the idea of uncovering what people might not clearly see--might not even be looking for--and connecting it to the present day . . . Though it's as fundamentally foolish as declaring a Great American Novelist, if forced to pick a Great American Nonfiction Writer, I might choose Ian Frazier, because his work has always resolutely quested to explore, experience, and explain his nation." --Dan Kois, Slate
"Ancient Rome had its Livy, and now the Bronx has its epic chronicler in Ian Frazier . . . a compelling chronicle of the Bronx, all the more effective for its clear-eyed take on a subject so often drenched in sentimentality
or distaste." --Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal