Wicked Akron: Tales of Rumrunners, Mobsters and Other Rubber City Rogues
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Wicked Akron, Ohio takes the reader on a journey through the seedy underbelly of the city's history.
Akron is known as "the rubber capital of the world" and home to Goodyear. But look beneath those tires and you will find dirt...a lot of dirt! Explore Akron's darkest days, when citizens burned city hall to the ground and members of the Ku Klux Klan called the shots from the schoolhouse to the courthouse. Meet a grave robber who became a political leader, a mobster who ordered police murders ...






















