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

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"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 per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Love, Steve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Akron, OH : University Of Akron Press, 2016.
Temas:
Plusquellic, Don, > 1949-
Mayors > Ohio > Akron > Biography.
Urban renewal > Ohio > Akron > History.
Maires > Ohio > Akron > Biographies.
Rénovation urbaine > Ohio > Akron > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Economic policy
Mayors
Politics and government
Social policy
Urban renewal
Akron (Ohio) > Politics and government.
Akron (Ohio) > Economic policy.
Akron (Ohio) > Social policy.
Akron (Ohio) > Biography.
Ohio > Akron
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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