![]() On whether Akron has succeeded in finding a new identity And we belong here in a way that we're starting to kind of be proud of. And it was, you know: Do we leave and go where it's going to be a more obvious sense of opportunity, or do we stay and commit to a place that kind of needs us more? And it kind of came down to: We belong here. ![]() I had a job offer in New York that I gave a lot of thought to, and talked to my wife a lot about it. Yeah, actually, there was a specific moment. Sports LeBron James: Akron, Ohio's 'Shooting Star' He was the first pick in the draft lottery, and I was an entry-level ball boy. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, to the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James and I are, I think, the only two people in the entire world who went straight from St. On LeBron James' decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat ![]() ![]() So a big instinct of this book is that bristling of pride and of wanting to tell our own story. And when it does, you know, we sort of bristle, because when you have been trying to redefine your identity and then, in Ohio every four years, here come the parachutes with everybody, "Ohio's going to pick the next president.". And one of the things I've come to understand is that the rest of the country doesn't pay that much attention to the post-industrial Midwest. I wouldn't say that it was so much an overt message with a purpose, as it was just kind of like, organically: This is what I've come to understand, having spent my whole life here. ![]()
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