A touching and provocative collection of autobiographical anecdotes that evoke the history of one of Americas most influential boroughs--the Bronx--through some of its many success storiesThe vivid oral histories in Arlene Aldas Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow 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. Crews Millard Mickey Drexler got his street smarts and his first jobs, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel were urged to pursue science and where music-making inspired hip hops Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever.The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food--for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh.
