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Radio Daze

Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars

By: Mike Olszewski

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Radio Daze

Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars

By: Mike Olszewski

This volume captures the radio scene during the 1970s and 1980s, chronicling how a small FM rock station, WMMS, became the top-rated station in Northeast Ohio and made Cleveland one of the most important radio markets in the world. It includes interviews with radio legends.

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Kent State University Press

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0873387732

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9780873387736

Cleveland TV Tales Volume 2

More Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Cleveland TV Tales Volume 2

More Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

More behind-the-screen stories from the golden age of local television! Let’s warm up the old family TV set, step through the screen, and see what was going on behind the scenes with some of our favorite Cleveland television personalities of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. We’ll look back at the rise of glamorous news anchors (including more than one Miss America contestant) with perfect smiles, perky noses, and really big hair . . . Late-night horror-movie hosts battling to take over the legacy of the legendary Ghoulardi . . . The strange, sad saga of the former daytime host who shot himself after a bizarre sex scandal . . . A weatherman who was a lightning rod for coworkers’ endless practical jokes . . . The investigative reporters whose sting operations caught wrongdoers with their pants down—sometimes literally! . . . The gutsy reporter who interviewed Danny Greene hours before the mobster was blown up in his car . . . The Cleveland mayor who co-hosted a children’s show with a ventriloquist’s dummy . . . and many other true tales.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441761

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9781938441769

Cleveland TV Tales

Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Cleveland TV Tales

Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

Remember when TV was just three channels and the biggest celebrities in Cleveland were an outrageous movie host named Ghoulardi, a gentle elf named Barnaby, and a tough-as-nails newswoman named Dorothy Fuldheim? These pioneering entertainers invented television programming before our very eyes while we watched from our living rooms. Revisit the early days of local TV in these fun and fact-filled stories featuring . . . Paige Palmer, the fitness host who smoked four packs a day . . . Smooth-voiced Captain Penny, who reminded us, “You can’t fool mom” . . . Volatile talk show host Alan Douglas, who pushed guests’ hot buttons—sometimes until they punched back . . . Gene Carroll, longtime king of the amateur hour . . . Woodrow, the Woodsman . . . Romper Room’s Miss Barbara . . . Jungle Larry . . . and many other local favorites.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441583

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9781938441585

Modern Privacy

By: Mike Haszto

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Modern Privacy

By: Mike Haszto

Brock Tanner is a television morning news show anchor at WVVV-TV in Westlake, Ohio, married to Nichole, a radio morning show jockey at WVVV-FM (V-103). In todays society, their lives are so public its a challenge to find any peaceful alone time. From obsessed fans to stalkers to everyday viewers, this has become the ways of their lives until a sudden tragedy unfolds, spinning multiple lives out of control. Friends, colleagues, families, and the whole market of Cleveland television viewers are impacted. What to do . . . oh, what to do? And just what does an innocent red hair bow have to do with it?

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AuthorHouse

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1496969480

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9781496969484

Cleveland TV Tales Volume 2

More Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Cleveland TV Tales Volume 2

More Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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1938441761

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Radio Daze

Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars

By: Mike Olszewski

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Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars

By: Mike Olszewski

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Kent State University Press

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0873387732

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Football in Long Beach

By: Mike Guardabascio

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Football in Long Beach

By: Mike Guardabascio

The roots of football run deep in Long Beach, where Long Beach Polytechnic High School has produced more players who have played in the National Football League than any other high school in the United States. Poly's storied program has fed the NFL a wide variety of top players, including such receivers as Johnny Morris, Gene Washington, Tony Hill, Stephone Paige, Marcedes Lewis and DeSean Jackson. This authoritative citywide pigskin history by Mike Guardabascio includes the football sagas of other area high schools, as well as the legacies of Long Beach State and Long Beach City College, which have enjoyed their own brands of national recognition.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614236313

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9781614236313

Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud

Tales of Cleveland's Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud

Tales of Cleveland's Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

These stories go backstage at legendary Cleveland rock music venues of the 1950s to '90s--clubs like the Agora and the Phantasy; halls like Public Auditorium and the Cleveland Arena; bars like the Euclid Tavern and Leo's Casino; haunts like Swingo's; the cavernous Municipal Stadium--and more. Told by and about the people who worked and rocked there.

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208

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Gray Publishers

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1598511041

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9781598511048

Cleveland TV Tales

Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Cleveland TV Tales

Stories from the Golden Age of Local Television

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

These 57 short stories are an entertaining introduction to the history of Cleveland, Ohio, for natives or newcomers. They highlight exceptional people and notable events from log cabin days to the mighty industrial era, and cover subjects from sports to fashion to crime. For any Clevelander who wants to know a little more about the old hometown.

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Gray & Company, Publishers

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1938441575

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9781938441578

The Assignment

The Pain and the Passion

By: Mike Murdock

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The Assignment

The Pain and the Passion

By: Mike Murdock

B-98 THE ASSIGNMENT: THE PAIN & THE PASSION, Volume 4 Everything You Need To Triumph In Life. Apply the powerful truths contained in this book. 5 Rules For Relationships / 6 Facts About The Force of Compassion / 13 Facts About Servanthood / 25 Powerful Facts About Submission. You Will Want To Add This Book To Your Personal Collection.

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Wisdom International Inc

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1563940566

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9781563940569

Noradrenergic Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease

By: Mike Briley,M. Marien

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Noradrenergic Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease

By: Mike Briley,M. Marien

Noradrenergic Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease examines fundamental and clinical evidence explaining the progression of the disease. Featuring contributions from acknowledged international experts in the field, this book defines ideopathic Parkinson's disease and covers such topics as the alterations in Parkinson's disease, norepinephrine-dopamine interactions, noradrenergic control of striatal dopamine release, glial cells as targets of the central noradrenergic systems, and a theory regarding noradrenergic mechanisms in Parkinson's disease. New directions for research on Parkinson's disease are also explored.

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324

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CRC Press

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0849383919

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9780849383915

Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea

By: Mike Brown,Barbara Humberstone

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Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea

By: Mike Brown,Barbara Humberstone

Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected or perceived as marginal in modern consciousness. This edited collection disrupts notions of the sea as ’other’, as foreign and featureless, through specific, situated accounts which highlight the centrality of the sea for the individuals concerned. Bringing together academics who combine scholarly expertise with lived experiences on, in and with the sea, it examines humans’ relationships with the sea. Through the use of auto-ethnographic accounting, the contributors reflect on how the sea has shaped their sense of identity, belonging and connection. They examine what it is to be engaged with the sea, and narrate their lived, sentient, corporeal experiences. The sea is a cultural seascape just as it is physical reality. The sea shapes us and we, in turn, attempt to ’shape it’ as we construct various versions of it that reflect our on-going and mutable relationship with it. The use of embodied accounts, as a way of conveying lived-experiences, and the integration of relevant theoretical frames for understanding the broader cultural implications provide new opportunities to understand seascapes.

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Routledge

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1317058542

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9781317058540

The Modern Republican Party in Florida

By: Peter Dunbar,Mike Haridopolos

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The Modern Republican Party in Florida

By: Peter Dunbar,Mike Haridopolos

Despite Florida’s current reputation as a swing state, there was a time when its Republicans were the underdogs against a Democratic powerhouse. This book tells the story of how the Republican Party of Florida became the influential force it is today. Republicans briefly came to power in Florida after the Civil War but were called “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” by residents who resented pro-Union leadership. They were so unpopular that they didn’t earn official party status in the state until 1928. Peter Dunbar and Mike Haridopolos show how, due largely to a population boom in the state and a schism in the Democratic Party, Republicans slowly started to see their ranks swell. This book chronicles the paths that led to a Republican majority in both the state Senate and House in the second half of the twentieth century and highlights successful campaigns of Florida Republicans for national positions. It explores the platforms and impact of Republican governors from Claude Kirk to Ron DeSantis. It also looks at how a robust two-party system opened up political opportunities for women and minorities and how Republicans affected pressing issues such as public education, environmental preservation, and criminal justice. As the Sunshine State enters its third decade under GOP control and partisan tensions continue to mount across the country, this book provides a timely history of the modern political era in Florida and a careful analysis of challenges the Republican Party faces in a state situated at the epicenter of the nation’s politics.

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University Press of Florida

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0813065194

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9780813065199

Warm Winds and Following Seas: Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise

By: Mike Brousard

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Warm Winds and Following Seas: Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise

By: Mike Brousard

Ocean Lifeguards make tens of thousands of rescues every year on the fabled, crowded beaches of Southern California. "Warm Winds and Following Seas: Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise" tells their stories, recounts their challenges and rescues, and illustrates the pressures of a misunderstood, high profile and physically difficult profession. From the rite of passage of Lifeguard Training, to the grit and grind of surf rescues and piloting rescue boats in big waves, to life-threatening saves in the icy waters of Northern California, this journey into the world of Ocean Lifeguards offers a fresh perspective on open water lifesaving and these unsung heroes of the coastline.

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Lulu.com

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1483484955

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9781483484952

Cleveland Radio Tales

Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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Cleveland Radio Tales

Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

Meet some of the most eccentric personalities in Cleveland radio history! These tales, mostly from the 1960s to 1990s, share on-air and off-air antics of radio hosts who performed in the nude, battled station owners (and sometimes brawled with each other), broke news stories, discovered new musical acts, and tried any stunt to draw listeners.

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188

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Gray Publishers

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1938441907

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9781938441905

From Captain Penny to Superhost

Tales from the Golden Age of Cleveland Children's Television, 1950s-1970s

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

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From Captain Penny to Superhost

Tales from the Golden Age of Cleveland Children's Television, 1950s-1970s

By: Mike Olszewski,Janice Olszewski

Children's TV in Cleveland sprang from the creative minds of actors who often made it up as they went, with few special effects but lots of imagination. Barnaby, Woodrow the Woodsman, Franz the Toymaker, Romper Room's Miss Barbara, Jungle Larry... Their impact on Northeast Ohio kids was lifelong. These stories offer a glimpse behind the plywood sets.

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Gray Publishers

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1598511122

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9781598511123

How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder

The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse

By: Mike Gilbert

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How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder

The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse

By: Mike Gilbert

You Don't Know the Full Truth About O.J. Simpson and the Murders that Gripped a Nation. But Mike Gilbert does, and after nearly two decades of being O.J. Simpson's sports agent, business advisor, and trusted confidant, Gilbert is breaking his silence and telling the full story of the man he idolized, but now despises. Gilbert's shocking tale is unlike anything you've read before; it isn't his "version" of what happened--it's the unvarnished truth. The truth about O.J., the murders, and the infamous trial. Not as Gilbert imagined or would like it to be, but how it actually was. Gilbert doesn't spare anyone, not even himself--he helped deceive the jury and feels deeply responsible for the "Not Guilty" verdict.

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Simon and Schuster

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1596980648

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9781596980648

In Search of Midnight

The Mike McGee Handbook of Awesome

By: Mike McGee

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In Search of Midnight

The Mike McGee Handbook of Awesome

By: Mike McGee

A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.

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SCB Distributors

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1938912292

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9781938912290

The Answer! Volume 1

By: Mike Norton

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The Answer! Volume 1

By: Mike Norton

Insomniac librarian Devin MacKenzie is yanked into a maelstrom of mayhem and mystery by the punctuation-faced crime fighter known as the Answer! Can this unlikely team take on the sinister BRAIN TRUST? A thoroughly original superhero adventure from Mike Norton (Battlepug) and Dennis Hopeless (Avengers Arena, Cable and X-Force). Collects the four-issue miniseries. * Dennis Hopeless (Cable and the X-Force, Avengers Arena) is one of comics' rising stars!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1621158497

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9781621158493

A Man Called Norman

By: Mike Adkins

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A Man Called Norman

By: Mike Adkins

A heartwarming tale about one man's willingness to reach out and touch the life of his neglected, elderly neighbor. Mass paper

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1561797146

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9781561797141

Satan's Circus

Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

By: Mike Dash

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Satan's Circus

Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

By: Mike Dash

They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan’s Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York’s vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan’s underworld? With appearances by the legendary and the notorious—including Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord of Tammany Hall; future president Theodore Roosevelt; beloved gangster Jack Zelig; and the newly famous author Stephen Crane—Satan’s Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker’s rise and fall, the book tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.

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