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David Stradling - Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland - 9780801453618 - V9780801453618
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Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland

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Description for Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPHL; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.

In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was at its nadir, polluted and impoverished, struggling to set a new course. The burning river became the emblem of all that was wrong with the urban environment in Cleveland and in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453618
SKU
V9780801453618
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Stradling
David Stradling is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State, also from Cornell, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, and Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. Richard Stradling is an editor at The News & ... Read more

Reviews for Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Focusing on Cleveland's shift from industrial to postindustrial service city and mayor Carl Stokes's administration (1967-1971), David (history, Univ. of Cincinnati) and Richard (retired reporter) Stradling critique postwar liberalism's limited ability to solve the resulting environmental and social problems. Well written and interestingly told, this is a good survey of Cleveland's experience for a general audience. Summing Up: Recommended.
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