The indomitable Don Plusquellic : how a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback / Steve Love.
2016
F499.A3 L68 2016
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Title
The indomitable Don Plusquellic : how a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback / Steve Love.
Author
Love, Steve, 1946- author.
ISBN
9781935603627 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9781629220550 (electronic book)
9781629220550 (electronic book)
Published
Akron, Ohio : Ringtaw Books, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (523 pages) : maps
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F499.A3 L68 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
977.1/043092 B
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Life writing can be hazardous to your health
Football : a plan for a lifetime
A sense of his place
The Council years
A sense of himself
A year of firsts : governing and campaigning
Breathing new life into downtown
Water + vision = JEDDs
Mayor versus media
Leader or bully? : it's not that simple
Staying power
Chinks in the armor
The larger stage
The schooling of an education mayor
The recall
To run or not to run
Afterword.
Football : a plan for a lifetime
A sense of his place
The Council years
A sense of himself
A year of firsts : governing and campaigning
Breathing new life into downtown
Water + vision = JEDDs
Mayor versus media
Leader or bully? : it's not that simple
Staying power
Chinks in the armor
The larger stage
The schooling of an education mayor
The recall
To run or not to run
Afterword.