DAYTON

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Man Called Dayton
2. Chapter Two - The Land That Made It Possible
3. Chapter Three - The Flood That Changed Everything
4. Chapter Four - Patterson’s Empire
5. Chapter Five - The Wrights Take Flight
6. Chapter Six - Kettering’s Spark
7. Chapter Seven - The Lab City
8. Chapter Eight - The Dayton Accords
9. Chapter Nine - Black Dayton
10. Chapter Ten - The Neighborhood Machine
11. Chapter Eleven - Boom Town
12. Chapter Twelve - Deindustrialized
13. Chapter Thirteen - Internal Colony
14. Chapter Fourteen - The Addiction Economy
15. Chapter Fifteen - Dayraq
16. Chapter Sixteen - The Highways That Cut Us
17. Chapter Seventeen - Schools, Shrines, and Streets
18. Chapter Eighteen - The Schools That Stayed

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Man Called Dayton LET’S START WITH a question nobody asks: Who the hell is Dayton? Because, yeah, it’s a city. It’s a name. It’s the thing you pass on I-75 when you're headed somewhere else. But it had to come from somewhere, right? Turns out, Jonathan Dayton was a Revolutionary War guy. Youngest signer of the Constitution. New Jersey born. Never even stepped foot in Ohio. But in the early 1800s, a crew of land surveyors decided to name their new settlement after him anyway. Why? Honestly? Clout. Jonathan Dayton was rich. He was powerful. And he had a ton of land investments in the Northwest Territory. Naming a city after him was like calling dibs on good karma. Or trying to...