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Chuck Taylor, All Star

The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History

By: Abe Aamidor

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Chuck Taylor, All Star

The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History

By: Abe Aamidor

The true story of a man, a company, a sport, and a nation. In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe. Although his name is on the label of the legendary All Stars, which have been worn by hundreds of millions, little is known about the man behind the name. For this biography, Abe Aamidor went on a three-year quest to learn the true story of Chuck Taylor. The search took him across the country, tracking down leads, separating fact from fiction, and discovering that the truth—warts and all—was much more interesting than the myth. Chuck Taylor was a basketball player who also served as a wartime coach with the US Army Air Forces and organized thousands of high school and college basketball clinics. He was a true “ambassador of basketball” in Europe and South America as well as all over the United States. And he was, to be sure, a consummate marketing genius who was inducted into the Sporting Goods Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. “A fascinating study on a pioneer . . . and an instructive look at the roots of a billion-dollar industry.” —American Way magazine

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0253111889

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Chuck Taylor, All Star

The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History

By: Abe Aamidor

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The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History

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At the Crossroads

Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry (Large Print 16pt)

By: Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff

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At the Crossroads

Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry (Large Print 16pt)

By: Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff

The U.S. auto industry has struck a brick wall. Can it get back on the road to recovery? At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry argues that the Obama administration missed an historic opportunity in 2009 to launch a Manhattan Project style effort to save not only Detroit, but the entire manufacturing base in Middle America.Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff explain how Washington s intervention fell short and how it is holding back American economic recovery. The authors take a thoughtful look at the root causes behind the auto industry s crash, including disastrous labor contracts such as the 1950s Treaty of Detroit, which set the stage for crushing legacy costs; Wall Street s predatory financial practices ushered in under the Reagan administration; and a largely unregulated free trade regime that undermined the competitiveness of American manufacturing.At the Crossroads tells the story of Detroit s collapse and a failed national industrial policy from the point of view of those most affected by it the factory workers, small business owners, and mayors of small manufacturing towns like Kokomo, Marion, and Bedford in Indiana, the number two auto manufacturing state after Michigan and the number one manufacturing state overall based on a percentage of population. Washington could debate the pros and cons of a national industrial policy and an auto industry bailout ad nauseum, but it was the people in small towns in Middle America who would live or die by the policy decisions of their distant national leaders.

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1459652479

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9781459652477

Shooting Star

The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry (Large Print 16pt)

By: Abe Aamidor

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Shooting Star

The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry (Large Print 16pt)

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For many years the British motorcycle industry was the largest in the world, not counting low - powered mopeds and scooters and the like. After World War II the motorcycle industry was the third largest source of foreign exchange for the United Kingdom after motor cars and Scotch whiskey. Yet by 1975 the industry was essentially dead. What led to the fall of the motorcycle industry in Britain, after virtually defining the country for so long? Shooting Star: The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry is the first comprehensive look at the motorcycle industry with a critical look at business and trade practices that led to its demise. The full romance, beauty and excitement of the machines and especially the top racers who rode them is captured here, but it's all blended for the first time with information about the lesser known businessmen who built the companies and then ran them into the ground, as well as a critical look at some of the engineers and designers who were brilliant and badly flawed at once. The failures of the British motorcycle industry are a painful object lesson for the badly strapped American automobile industry at the present time.

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1459652339

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