Download or read book Glass House written by Brian Alexander and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
Download or read book The Glass City written by Barbara L Floyd and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Toledo glass—past, present, and future
Download or read book The Glass Industry in Ohio written by Simon N. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glass in Northwest Ohio written by Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever. A brilliant inventor, Michael Owens of Libbey Glass automated the glass-making process after 3,000 years of no change. His automated bottle-making machine changed American life with the introduction of the milk bottle, beer bottle, glass jar, baby bottle, and soda bottle. It also eliminated child labor in the glass factories. Owens also automated the production of fl at glass by 1920. By 1930, over 85 percent of the worlds glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of Glass Capital of the World upon northwest Ohio.
Download or read book Ohio Glass 1815 1953 written by Toledo Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ohio Glass written by Toledo Museum of Art and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ohio Pottery and Glass written by Lois Lehner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glass City written by Barbara L Floyd and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headline, “Where Glass is King,” emblazoned Toledo newspapers in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River, and many felt Toledo’s potential as “The Future Great City of the World” would at last be realized. The move was successful—though not on the level some boosters envisioned—and since 1888, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of workers who created the city’s middle class and developed technical innovations that impacted the glass industry worldwide. But as has occurred in other cities dominated by single industries—from Detroit to Pittsburgh to Youngstown—changes to the industry it built have had a devastating impact on Toledo. Today, 45 percent of all glass is manufactured in China. Well-researched yet accessible, this new book explores how the economic, cultural, and social development of the Glass City intertwined with its namesake industry and examines Toledo’s efforts to reinvent itself amidst the Midwest’s declining manufacturing sector.
Download or read book Millersburg Glass written by Marie McGee and published by Wallace-Homestead. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of John Fenton and his two plants -- the Millersburg Glass Company and the Radium Glass Company. Hundreds of pieces of Carnival glass are illustrated in full color, as well as other Millersburg products. Company history is exceptionally well presented, and the color photographs are outstanding. The glass seems to leap off the page! This book includes a helpful glossary as well as chapters on Crystal Glass, Carnival Glass, Confusing Patterns, Base Glass: Vaseline & Blue, Millersburg Rarities, and Glassmaking in Millersburg. Lovers of Carnival glass will be especially delighted with this book.
Download or read book Pottery Glass Brass Salesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ohio written by Joyce Hart and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Ohio. The third edition of this popular series provides lists of key people, sites, cities, plants and animals, political figures, industries, and events in the Buckeye State.
Download or read book 390 Traditional Stained Glass Designs written by Hywel G. Harris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finely rendered line drawings, based on photographs of authentic Victorian and Edwardian era designs, depict lovely floral and foliate motifs, a remarkable array of geometrics, transitional designs showing Art Nouveau influence, and much more — all in a wide range of sizes and shapes.
Download or read book Bar Glassware written by Federal Glass Company (Columbus, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A catalog of shells, sham bottom tumblers, old fashioned cocktails, whiskey tumblers, stem goblets, footed highballs, stem highballs, saucer champagnes, tall champagnes, clarets, wines and cocktails, cordials, pilsners, ice tubs and liquor bottles."--p. 2.
Download or read book Inco written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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