The Indomitable Don Plusquellic: How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron's Comeback by Steve Love

Ebook free downloads for kindle The Indomitable Don Plusquellic: How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron's Comeback by Steve Love


Download The Indomitable Don Plusquellic: How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron's Comeback PDF

  • The Indomitable Don Plusquellic: How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron's Comeback
  • Steve Love
  • Page: 450
  • Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  • ISBN: 9781935603627
  • Publisher: University of Akron Press, The

Download eBook




Ebook free downloads for kindle The Indomitable Don Plusquellic: How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron's Comeback by Steve Love

Overview

Until his resignation in May 2015, Don Plusquellic had been the mayor of Akron, Ohio, for twenty-eight years. When he took office in 1987, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the average price for a car was a little over $10,000, and later that year the US stock market would drop over 22 percent in one day—at the time the sharpest market downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. This was a harbinger of things to come in Akron as the Rubber Capital of the World hemorrhaged jobs. In the 1980s, over 26,000 people were employed in the plastics and rubber product manufacturing industries in greater Akron. By 2007, the number had slipped to only 7,220. The loss of jobs coincided with greater suburbanization—a blow to the city’s housing market. Plusquellic was challenged with rebuilding a transforming city. Using news sources and extensive interviews, Love has crafted a superb political biography of the person some have called Akron’s Mayor for Life. Plusquellic reinvented his job, erasing the line between public and private efforts to provide employment in a reimagined downtown and innovative Joint Economic Development Districts beyond the city. He championed education for future workers. Don Plusquellic won fast friends and eager enemies with his silk-and-sandpaper personality. He became one of the longer-serving and most-honored mayors in America. His story is one of both place and person, the son of a rubber worker who restored Akron’s spirit and belief in itself after the city lost its title of Rubber Capital of the World.



More eBooks: Books to download on mp3 for free The Book of Deacon by Joseph Lallo site, Amazon books download to android The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms - Abridged in One Volume read pdf, Free ebook download for pc The Klingon Dictionary 9780671745592 (English Edition) link, Free online books download read In Bed with the Devil 9780061355578 English version download pdf, Descarga de libros de audio mp3 gratis The Fog de James Herbert download link, Download full ebook google books A Larger Universe by James L. Gillaspy (English Edition) 9781468112061 here, Ebooks descargables gratis para reproductores de mp3 Ez Lifetime A To Z Calorie Counter (Spanish Edition) de Helena Schaar 9781411602823 read book, Download ebooks free ipad Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Most Spectacular Trips ePub download pdf,