{"product_id":"walking-broad-looking-for-the-heart-of-brotherly-love-paperback","title":"Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBruce Buschel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWedged between the hustle of New York and the grandeur of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia is America's smallest big city, America's biggest small city, and America's most American city. It is also a city in flux. Bruce Buschel is a native Philadelphian who revisits his hometown and, in doing so, revisits his personal history and the city's complex identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Buschel was born on Broad Street, his father died on Broad Street; he flunked out of college, sold cameras, and purchased drugs on Broad Street; he wrote for a newspaper on Broad Street, touched JFK's left hand on Broad Street, and met his second wife when she worked on Broad Street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On his thirteen-mile walk down the boulevard, Buschel talks to everyone from the old Italian tailor down the corner from the Chinese Mennonite pastor to the Jewish funeral home director across the street from Bilal, the Muslim restaurateur. On Broad Street, he finds livestock just a few steps from Joe Frazier's gym. The newly dubbed \"Gayborhood\" is just a stone's throw from the home of the heartbreaking Eagles. A world-class ballet rehearses at the Rock School while outcast rockers practice at the Paul Green School. The gas station attendant on Broad Street may be a recent immigrant, but he has already adopted the brusque manners and terse responses of a fourth-generation Philadelphian. Naturally, William Penn oversees the whole insecure, glorious mess from his perch atop City Hall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After 9\/11, Americans were drawn to Philly's authenticity and history. After decades of decay, something positive is happening, and dyspeptic Philadelphians are trying to adjust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lot has changed since Buschel grew up there, but he hasn't managed to shake the attitudes instilled in childhood -- mere mention of the '64 Phillies (and one of the greatest collapses in baseball history) still stings. He has retained his irreverent sense of humor, his distrust of authority, his ambivalence about New York, his disdain for New Jersey, and, above all, his sense of loyalty -- if not outright love -- for his native city.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Buschel\u003c\/b\u003e worked at the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c\/i\u003e magazine before writing for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, GQ, Rolling Stone, Premiere, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSport\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He has won an ASCAP Award for his articles about music, has been anthologized in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Sports Writing\u003c\/i\u003e series, and cocreated the five-time Obie-winning musical \u003ci\u003eEli's Comin', \u003c\/i\u003e based on the songs of Laura Nyro. He has also produced and directed a series of jazz films, \u003ci\u003eLive at the Village Vanguard, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrover Washington Jr. in Concert.\u003c\/i\u003e Buschel has one wife, two sons, a dog named Lulu, and a cat named E.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42169127895175,"sku":"9781451646665","price":18.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a2666b995d906c238abd7de5e0b8bda1.webp?v=1733339455","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/walking-broad-looking-for-the-heart-of-brotherly-love-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}