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Chipmunks "Squeakquel" on DVD/BD March 30
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Stallworth's contract terminated
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NBA Power Rankings from Around the Internet
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Buckeyes grab 18 players on signing day
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Garfield at Buchtel basketball
All Da King's Men:
Palin At The Tea Party Convention
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Republican Pre-Conditions
Akron Law Café:
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (Part 4): Kennedy's and O'Connor's Basic Approaches to Constitutional Decisionmaking – Top Down and Bottom Up
Car Chase:
Collector Car Hobby Loses One of the Best—Jim Roll
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Decisions Decisions: Credit Cards or Your Mortgage?
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Loucile is looking for a Lake Erie getaway in June for three kids, ages 1, 3, and 5.
Sound Check:
Talk of the Town – Top entertainment picks for the weekend
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Track HR Research
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'Tecmo Bowl' recreation of Super Bowl XLIV
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Do IT this week: Layering
Published on Sunday, Nov 08, 2009
Foreclosures, layoffs and bankruptcies. The headlines of today show startling similarities to those of the 1930s, when the crisis that followed the 1929 stock market crash devastated the economy. In Youngstown, a lawyer named Benjamin Roth decided to keep a journal of his observations; his son Daniel, now 80, has published The Great Depression: A Diary.
The diary, which comprises 14 volumes, begins in 1931, when Roth notes that his brother already had been out of work for two years. The book is a reminder that times have been hard before: In 1932, one of every four families in Youngstown relied on charity, and 40 percent of home mortgages were in default.
Roth writes that, for him, the Depression was a '' 'postgraduate' course . . . in economics and finance.'' He did his own research on previous economic crises, like the panic of 1837. Well into the 1970s, he returned to his diary and updated his accounts.
The Great Depression (288 pages, hardcover) costs $24.95 from PublicAffairs Books. Daniel Roth also is a lawyer in Youngstown; his co-editor, James Ledbetter, is a financial journalist.
Events
Lake Forest Country Club (200 Lake Forest Drive, Hudson) — Novelist Jamie Ford will speak about his best-seller Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, about a Chinese-American boy and Japanese-American girl in World War II-era Seattle, 2 p.m. today.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Former Cleveland Press police reporter John Tidyman signs Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart: Tales From the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers Told by the Men and Women Who Reported the News, 7 p.m. Monday; Harriet Tramer signs Rounding the Circle of Love: Growing Up as She Grows Old, as part of a National Family Caregivers Month event, 7 p.m. Tuesday; on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., alumnae of Ursuline College will sign their books as part of a fundraiser for the college; Janie Reinart and Mary Anne Mayer sign Love You More Than You Know: Mothers' Stories About Sending Their Sons and Daughters to War, 7 p.m. Friday; Akron native Terry Gould signs How Can You Mend This Purple Heart? from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday (the last two events benefit Books for Soldiers).
Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland (26001 S. Woodland Road, Beachwood) — The 10th annual Festival of Jewish Books and Authors begins with NBC News bureau chief Martin Fletcher, who will discuss his book Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World, 7:30 p.m. Monday. Admission for non-members is $20. Some events are at other venues; see http://www.clevejcc.org for the schedule.
Hudson Library & Historical Society (96 Library St.) — Cleveland Heights author Dan Chaon will discuss and sign his new novel Await Your Reply, 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Barnes & Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Reinart and Mayer sign Love You More Than You Know, 7 p.m. Wednesday.
E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall (198 Hill St., Akron) — Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point, will speak as part of the University of Akron Forum Series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $8.
Barberton Library (602 W. Park Ave.) — Akron physician Cynthia J. Koelker discusses and signs 101 Ways to Save Money on Healthcare: Practical Advice for Today's Economy, 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Akron-Summit County Public Library, Maple Valley branch (1187 Copley Road) — Rebecca Shepard and Jessie Locket, mother-and-daughter cancer survivors, will discuss and sign their book Joy Comes in the Morning, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Weymouth Country Club (3946 Weymouth Road, Medina Township) — Authors Michael Heaton (The Best of the Minister of Culture), James Renner (The Serial Killer's Apprentice: And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes) and Les Roberts (the Milan Jacovich mystery series) appear at Project: LEARN's 18th annual benefit, with autographed book auction. $55 includes buffet dinner. 6 p.m. Friday. 330-723-1314.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1 Wade Oval) — University of Virginia professor Timothy Beatley will speak on Green Urbanism and sign his books, like Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities. $10. 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main St., Hudson) — Cuyahoga Falls author Marilyn Seguin will sign No Ordinary Lives: Four 19th-Century Teenage Diaries, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Akron-Summit County Public Library, Fairlawn-Bath branch (3101 Smith Road) — Adam Besenyodi discusses Deus Ex Comica: The Rebirth of a Comic Book Fan, 1 p.m. Saturday.
Borders (335 Howe Ave., Cuyahoga Falls) — Akron novelist Patrick Worden will sign Mind.Net, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 orlsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
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