Song of Brooklyn gathers the voices of diverse citizens, past and present, unknown and famous — Spike Lee and Norman Mailer among them. In it, each person gives testimony to one of the most socially relevant and important areas that helped define the United States and continues to do so.Song of Brooklyn gathers the voices of diverse citizens, past and present, unknown and famous — Spike Lee and Norman Mailer among them. In it, each person gives testimony to one of the most socially relevant and important areas that helped define the United States and continues to do so.
– Michael Danaher
Song of Brooklyn: An Oral History of America’s Favorite Borough
Marc Eliot
Hardcover, 368 pages, $24.95, Broadway Books