{"id":1991,"date":"2016-04-15T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-160\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:48:29","slug":"the-indomitable-don-plusquellic","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/the-indomitable-don-plusquellic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indomitable Don Plusquellic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akron has borne its share of outsized personalities \u2014Ray C. Bliss, LeBron James, Jack Knight. Don Plusquellic can hold his own with any of them and might likely be the first to tell you so. This is the biography he deserves, big and tumbling, profane and heartfelt, rough-edged and charming\u2014just like the man himself. Kudos to Steve Love for tackling Akron\u2019s greatest quarterback and living to give us the tale. This book will stand among the most important chronicles of our region\u2019s history.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014David Giffels, author of\u00a0<em>The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we needed a former sportswriter, Steve Love, to unravel the enigma of the former quarterback, Don Plusquellic, the profane but pragmatic mayor who commanded the huddle for the city of Akron for twenty-eight and a half years. From the opening chapter we see Plusquellic\u2019s drive, his passion, his willingness to risk a big loss for the chance to make a spectacular play for his team. From there, we are treated to seats on the fifty-yard line, where we watch Plusquellic\u2019s transformation from the boy who wanted to lead the Cleveland Browns to the man who realized, instead, that his mission in life was to quarterback the city he loved. \u201cThis is always what I wanted to be when I grew up,\u201d the mayor told Love. \u201cI just didn\u2019t know it.\u201d But\u00a0<em>The Indomitable Don Plusquellic<\/em>\u00a0is much more than a play-by-play account of the mayor\u2019s accomplished but controversial career. Love provides not only well-reported, nimbly written insights into the man but also takes us behind the scenes to show us what it takes to run a city. So whether you have booed or cheered the mayor, I think you\u2019ll agree that Love scores a touchdown with this book.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Stuart Warner, former\u00a0<em>Akron Beacon Journal<\/em>\u00a0associate managing editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Love<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<p>Steve Love is failing retirement by continuing to write after more than thirty-five years as a journalist. He is the author or coauthor of four books, including\u00a0<i>Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron<\/i>. He also has taught the Writing Biography class in Hiram\u2019s Weekend College, where he received his master\u2019s degree interdisciplinary studies when he was in his sixties. He lives in Green with his wife, Jackie, and their literary cat\u2014Harper-Lee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron\u2019s Comeback<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookdetails\">\n<h3>by Steve Love<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 504; Size: 6 x 9<br \/>\nSeries: Ohio History and Culture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2655,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[85984],"product_tag":[7160,97283,7104],"class_list":{"0":"post-1991","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ohio-history-and-culture","7":"product_tag-akron","8":"product_tag-ohio-history","9":"product_tag-politics","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}