{"product_id":"when-the-garden-was-eden-clyde-the-captain-dollar-bill-and-the-glory-days-of-the-new-york-knicks-9780061956249","title":"When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliant . . . smartly written, featuring tons of interviews with the Knicks of the Phil Jackson-Clyde-Reed era.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Harvey Araton has evocatively rendered the team that New York never stops pining for--the Old Knicks. More than a nostalgic chronicle . . . it's a portrait of a group of proud, idiosyncratic men and the city that needed them.\" --\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Mahler, author of \u003cem\u003eLadies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eThe Boys of Summer \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Bronx Is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003esports 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarvey Araton has followed the Knicks, old and new, for decades--first as a teenage fan, then as a young sports reporter with the \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and now as a writer and columnist for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eWhen the Garden Was Eden\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive account of the New York Knicks in their vintage pomp. With measured prose and shoe-leather reporting, Araton relives their most glorious triumphs and bitter rivalries, and casts light on a team all but forgotten outside of pregame highlight reels and nostalgic reunions at the Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAraton'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvey Araton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061956249","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081485336713,"sku":"9780061956249","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9c3992d0-6725-4b35-80c9-35315137f65d.jpg?v=1782240063","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/when-the-garden-was-eden-clyde-the-captain-dollar-bill-and-the-glory-days-of-the-new-york-knicks-9780061956249","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}