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When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo

Name: When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo
Author: Larry King, Martin Appel
ISBN: 9781560546610

by Larry King, Martin Appel

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When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo is a nostalgic and highly personal memoir by Larry King, America's number one nighttime radio host and host of CNN's "Larry King Live," about growing up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties, when Brooklyn was the world. Larry King takes us back to the place that transformed him and, in a way, all of us, too: Brooklyn. It was a special place, where egg creams were stirred just so, where satin jackets were hip, where Manhattan was "the city" and just a nickel subway ride away, where you hung out day after day with the boys on the corner - your corner - and played stickball and stoopball through the long summer days, where Coney Island was a magical escape, Nathan's hot dogs gourmet cuisine, and the beloved Dodgers the emblem of a time and place. In these pages, you'll see why "when you're from Brooklyn, everything else is Tokyo." It is also Larry King's own story about growing up and surviving in "King's Country" - and about why that name was so ironically and obviously fitting for his own Brooklyn days. In addition, he includes delightful anecdotes by other celebrities - those stars of stage, screen, and public life whom Larry interviews daily - who call New York's most famous borough home, for "everyone started in Brooklyn": Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lou Gossett, Jr., Dom DeLuise, Eli Wallach, Isaac Asimov, and Joan Rivers, as well as many more. In fact, one out of every seven Americans can trace his or her roots to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a metaphor - for all Americans - for the place where we grew up, the place that formed us, the place we may have left behind in order to become who we are today. When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo perfectly captures the spirit, the scents, and the sounds of a special time and place and, also, of a special state of mind.

About the Author, Larry King, Martin Appel

Larry King

LARRY KING is the host of CNN's Larry King Live, the first worldwide phone-in television talk show and the network's highest-rated program. The Emmy-winning King has been dubbed "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" (TV Guide) and "master of the mike" (Time). King also founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, which has raised millions of dollars and provided lifesaving cardiac procedures for nearly sixty needy children and adults.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Radio/TV talk-show host and USA Today columnist King and TV producer and author Appel have put together a delightful composite memoir of growing up in Brooklyn during the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Heartwarming, sometimes uproarious, occasionally sad, the book is a wonderful picture of ``a perfect blend of a little town in a big city.'' With an ethnic mix of Jews, Italians and Irish, the Brooklyn depicted here was a world of close-knit families that didn't have much money, of boys who were shy with girls (although most spun fictional tales of romantic conquests), of loyal Democrats who worshiped Roosevelt and came to respect Truman, and of fanatic Dodger supporters who hated team owner Walter O'Malley for moving their ``Bums'' to L.A. Sure to be snapped up by anyone who ever lived in the City of Churches, as it used to be called. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour. (Sept.)