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Wheels Of Fortune: The Story Of Rubber In Akron, Steve Love, David Giffels
Wheels Of Fortune: The Story Of Rubber In Akron, Steve Love, David Giffels
David Giffels
Wheels of Fortune is a tale of two cities—both of them Akron. One city, built on rubber, turned itself into a model for Middle America industrial success. The other city has had to learn to live on in rubber's wake, to remake itself, to come to terms with its remade self. To tell this tale of two cities is to tell the tale of America's rubber industry. The stories interlock like tire and wheel. From its earliest days, Akron has been a city of multiple incarnations: canal boat stopover, farm machinery manufacturer, cereal maker. But for more than a century …