LEADER 03806nam 2200577 450 001 9910798467303321 005 20230126214436.0 010 $a1-62922-056-6 010 $a1-62922-055-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000721238 035 $a(EBL)4538156 035 $a(OCoLC)951594285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4538156 035 $a(OCoLC)932618840 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4538156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11218394 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL948052 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000721238 100 $a20151214d2016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe indomitable Don Plusquellic $ehow a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback /$fSteve Love 210 1$aAkron, Ohio :$cRingtaw Books,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (523 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-935603-62-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 2 $a"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. 606 $aMayors$zOhio$zAkron$vBiography 606 $aUrban renewal$zOhio$zAkron$xHistory 607 $aAkron (Ohio)$xPolitics and government 607 $aAkron (Ohio)$xEconomic policy 607 $aAkron (Ohio)$xSocial policy 607 $aAkron (Ohio)$vBiography 615 0$aMayors 615 0$aUrban renewal$xHistory. 676 $a977.1/043092 676 $aB 700 $aLove$b Steve$f1946-$01518686 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798467303321 996 $aThe indomitable Don Plusquellic$93756395 997 $aUNINA