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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Love, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Akron, OH : University Of Akron Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plusquellic, Don, > 1949-
Urban renewal.
Social policy.
Politics and government.
Mayors.
Economic policy.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Renovation urbaine > Ohio > Akron > Histoire.
Maires > Ohio > Akron > Biographies.
Urban renewal > Ohio > Akron > History.
Mayors > Ohio > Akron > Biography.
Ohio > Akron.
Akron (Ohio) > Biography.
Akron (Ohio) > Social policy.
Akron (Ohio) > Economic policy.
Akron (Ohio) > Politics and government.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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