Waldo Maccabees. In the Footsteps of Christ. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542424936)

Tom Jones was born in Akron, Ohio and currently lives in New Braunfels, Texas, with his wife, Steffanie. Following his graduation at Kent State University he worked as a nationally award-winning copywriter within the advertising industry in San Antonio, Texas for twenty years. Ten of these years were at his own firm, Flying Terrier Creative Company-which was named after a stray dog with a broken tail that he adopted off the street.That dog's name was Waldo, who also inspired this book. He is also the author of On A Burning Deck, The Road to Akron and On A Burning Deck, Return to Akron. Based on over 50 hours of unpublished oral histories, it offers the first complete portrait of one family's origins in rural Kentucky over a century ago, their migration to Akron, Ohio in 1917 and work in the rubber industry. Meticulously fact-checked and referenced for accuracy, thoroughly annotated for historical perspective, and supplemented by contemporary newspaper accounts, long forgotten reports and photographs, this contextual oral history offers the only first-hand account of industrial Ohio's boom years that made Akron "The Rubber Capital of the World."