The indomitable Don Plusquellic : how a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback /
"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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Akron, Ohio :
Ringtaw Books,
2016.
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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.