Hot Type, Cold Beer and Bad News: A Cleveland Reporter's Journey Through the 1960s

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"The 1960s were the most turbulent era in Cleveland history--and an exciting time to be a newspaper reporter. It's an eyewitness account by a veteran journalist who, as an ambitious young reporter, covered the major events of the day. Reporting for the Plain Dealer, Michael D. Roberts covered a decade of destruction, death and dissension--from the riots on Cleveland's East Side to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the aftermath of the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the tragedy of the Kent State shootings. There were enlightened moments, too. For a good part of that decade the eyes of the nation were on Cleveland, watching whether it would elect the first African American mayor of a major American city. It was also the last golden hour of print newspapers--although they didn't know it yet"--Provided by publisher