Abraham Aamidor
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Abraham Aamidor

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Abraham S. "Abe" Aamidor is a former daily newspaper reporter, including at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and The Indianapolis Star. He's the author of several books, including "Chuck Taylor, All Star: The True Story of the Man Behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History" (Indiana University Press, 2006, 2017), "Shooting Star: The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry" (ECW Press, 2009); co-author of "Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism" (Peter Lang Publishing, 2013); and co-author with Ted Evanoff of "At the Crossroads: Middle America's Battle to Save the Car Industry" (ECW Press, February 2010). A collection of his short stories, "Don'T Go," will be published by The Stephen F. Austin State University Press on November 1, 2022. His novel, "Letting Go," about a father who loses his son in the war in Afghanistan, was published by The Permanent Press in 2018. He has contributed a chapter on media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign to "The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News: Implications for American Democracy and the Republic" (Lexington Studies in Political Communication), edited by Jim A. Kuypers of Virginia Tech. He's also the author of short stories published in The Gettysburg Review, The Arkansas Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. He's a University of Chicago graduate (AB, Philosophy, 1969) and was born in Memphis, but grew up in Chicago from age 7.
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