Glass House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glass House write by Brian Alexander. This book was released on 2017-02-14. Glass House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Glass City
The Glass City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Glass City write by Barbara L Floyd. This book was released on 2014-10-30. The Glass City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Toledo glass—past, present, and future
Glass in Northwest Ohio
Glass in Northwest Ohio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glass in Northwest Ohio write by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.. This book was released on 2007. Glass in Northwest Ohio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 world's glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of "Glass Capital of the World" upon northwest Ohio.
The Glass Industry in Ohio
The Glass Industry in Ohio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Glass Industry in Ohio write by Simon N. Wilson. This book was released on 1938. The Glass Industry in Ohio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ohio Glass 1815-1953
Ohio Glass 1815-1953 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ohio Glass 1815-1953 write by Toledo Museum of Art. This book was released on 1953. Ohio Glass 1815-1953 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
