Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron

Best of Show (Print), Best Publication, 1999 Society of Professional Journalists; American Association of University Presses 1999 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show; Rated Outstanding in 1999 University Press Books Selected for Public and Seconday School Libraries For more than a century after Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich came to town in 1870, Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. Its people worked in the rubber shops of Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, General, Seiberling, Mohawk, and S…