Akron: Rising Toward the Twenty-First Century

by Abe Zaidan

Book by Zaidan, Abe

232 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Abe Zaidan has been a professional journalist and freelance writer for more than forty years. He was the Ohio correspondent for the Washington Post, as well as a political columnist at the Akron Beacon Journal. Zaidan was part of the Akron Beacon Journal’s team that covered the May 4 shootings at Kent State University in 1970, and his articles helped the newspaper earn a Pulitzer Prize.