Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love It is also a city in flux. 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 B
| Title | : | Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451646666 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-05-07 |
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Wedged 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. 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. 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
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly After living in New York for 25 years, writer Buschel returned to his native Philadelphia to explore the city from the perspective of a place of enchantment from his youth: Broad Street, a 13-mile stretch starting near the northern su-burbs and running through the squalor of North Philly to City Hall and along the theaters and hotels of Center City down to Little Italy. Block by block, mile by mile, Buschel explores how the street—and by extension the city itself—has changed since his youth, presenting fascinating glimpses of current Broad Street residents in action, such as the owner of a fast-food joint that serves hoagies and cheesesteaks. But Buschel also argues that nothing has really changed about the city's soul: to be a Philadelphian is to be perpetually mildly depressed and almost happy to be so, which affects everything from the city's politics (a steady diet of civic shame and invective) to sports (fans love to complain). This painfully hon
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