On A Burning Deck

“Oh, a lot of water’s gone under the dam. Oooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh! And I lived in the best years this country will ever see. They’ll have more sophisticated machinery and equipment and everything else in the world from now on than I’ll ever know of or heard of or thought of. But they’ll never have the freedom we had. The ambition we had.”

– Haskell Jones

The One Volume Hardback

On A Burning Deck combines the award-winning paperback versions of On A Burning Deck, The Road to Akron and On A Burning Deck, Return to Akron into one hardback volume—filled with previously unpublished photos and new information. Reviews agree that it is a tale well-told with humor and insight into the “hillbillies” who built industrial Ohio.

Based on over 50 hours of oral histories, as well as 173 rare photos from archives, museums and personal collections from around the country, On A Burning Deck is the only work to offer a complete portrait of one family’s origins in rural Kentucky, migration to Akron, Ohio, work in the rubber factories and eventual impact on local politics and government.

Meticulously researched, rich in detail, thoroughly referenced for historical perspective and completely indexed with hundreds of names, On A Burning Deck is a must-read for anyone interested in 20th century history, Ohio or Kentucky history, industrial relation, local governance or genealogy.

Read why Publisher’s Weekly called On A Burning Deck “entertaining” and “enlightening.” And find out why The Kentucky Historical Society and the Ohio Local History Alliance awarded On A Burning Deck their top honors in publishing. Order your copy of On A Burning Deck today.