Kent Press: 598 books
Disqualified
Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest...
George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream
The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years
In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30-year-old George Steinbrenner sketched with his hands the future as he dreamed it. He grabbed the young basketball player who was sitting near...
Conundrums for the Long Week-End
England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and...
The Widows' Handbook
Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Widows convey their feelings and survival strategies in this compelling anthology
The Widows’ Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring...
Chekhov's Doctors
A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world.
Chekhov experienced...
Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919
A Life in American Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Kenyon Cox was among the best-know cultural figures in the United States during the first two decades of this century, thanks to his reputation as a mural painter and especially as a critic. In this first biography, H. Wayne Morgan focuses on Cox’s development and personality, treating his art as...
Showtime in Cleveland
The Rise of a Regional Theater Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This work takes the reader from the city's first professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the heyday of vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly renovated Allen Theater in 1999 and the return of touring Broadway shows to Cleveland.
In 1820 Cleveland was able to draw a visit...
Forbes Watson
Independent Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1997
Forbes Watson, art commentator for the New York Evening Post and New York World, was probably best known as the editor of The Arts, the liveliest and most influential art magazine of the 1920s. He quickly gained a reputation as an outspoken ally of progressive American artists and a caustic annihilator...
The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath
A Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Experts weigh in on a pivotal engagement in the War of 1812
Few naval battles in American history have left a more enduring impression on America’s national consciousness than the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry’s battle flag emblazoned with...
General Grant
by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“The editor has placed the dispute between Arnold and Twain in its historical perspective. The volume is especially significant because it adds a new dimension to Grant; it places him in relation to the literary men of that era.”—Robert A. Waller, Civil War History
General Grant by Matthew...
Cleveland
A Metropolitan Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like that of many metropolitan centers, have sharply declined. How much of this change is due to characteristics of growth and development, the outmigration of population and investment' technological advances,...
Confronting the Odds
African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap, and Bessie House-Soremekun provides this historical analysis...
by Marcus Gleisser
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Cyrus S. Eaton was born on December 27, 1883, in the quiet Nova Scotian village of Pugwash. He often visited Cleveland, Ohio, spending summer vacations from college with his uncle and was employed in 1905 by his first teacher, John D. Rockefeller Sr., as a clerk and troubleshooter for the East Ohio...
Guilty by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun....